| 释义 |
start naked, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 3 steortnaket, steor(t)naked, stert naked, (4 star naked), 4, 9 dial. start naked.
[App. f. start n.1 + naked a.
The literal sense would seem to be ‘naked even to the tail’. Start has not been found in Eng. with the sense ‘buttocks’ (= tail n.1 5), but the MDu. and Ger. equivalents are so used.]
Entirely naked; = stark-naked a.
a1225Juliana 16 (Roy. MS.), & he het hatterliche strupen hire steortnaket [Bodl. MS. steort naket]. a1225Ancr. R. 148 Heo haueð bipiled mine figer..despoiled hire stert [printed sterc] naked, & iworpen awei [etc.]. Ibid. 316 Bicleope þine sunne steornaked; þet is, ne hele þu nowiht of al þet liþ þer abuten. 13..Pol. Songs (Camden) 336 Sholde he for everi fals uth lese kirtel or kote,..He sholde stonde start [printed starc] naked twye o day or eve. c1320Cast. Love 431 in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxviii, And I-strupt him al start-naked. a1325in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 140 Þai lay þerin all star naked. 1892Dialect Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc. 1896) I. v. 234 Start-naked: stark naked. ‘He is a start-naked villain.’.. Mr. A. W. Long, of North Carolina, reports that he never heard any other form than start-naked used in conversation in that state; and that two of his friends—one from Virginia, and the other from South Carolina—make the same statement for those two states. 1896Warwicksh. Gloss. |