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naked as a jaybird
Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. |  naked as a jaybird - (used informally) completely unclothedbare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, peeled, stark naked, rawcolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechunclothed - not wearing clothing |
Translationsnaked as a jaybird
(as) naked as a jaybirdslang Completely nude; without any clothes on whatsoever. My roommate is so embarrassing, always walking around the house naked as a jaybird! We have an adorable video of you when you were about two years old, running around the back yard as naked as a jaybird!See also: jaybird, naked*naked as a jaybirdCliché naked; bare. (*Also: as ~.) Two-year-old Matilda escaped from her nurse, who was bathing her, and ran out naked as a jaybird into the dining room. Uncle John sometimes spends a whole day walking around his house as naked as a jaybird.See also: jaybird, nakednaked as a jaybirdBare, unclothed, as in I came straight out of the shower, naked as a jaybird. This simile replaced the 19th-century naked as a robin and is equally unclear, since neither bird is normally stripped of its feathers. Further, the bird it refers to is more often called simply "jay" rather than "jaybird," yet the latter is always part of the simile. [c. 1940] See also: jaybird, nakednaked as a jaybirdNude. This expression is definitely American in origin, but the simile is as puzzling as the older British naked as a robin. Neither bird is very plain in appearance (“bare”). It appears in print with some frequency from the mid-twentieth century on. For example, D. Delman used it in Sudden Death (1972): “The corpus was as naked as a jaybird.”See also: jaybird, nakednaked as a jaybirdStark naked. Why, of all ornithological species, should a jaybird be singled out for its nudity? One explanation is that “jay” was a 19th-century word for a country bumpkin, and since bumpkins were vulnerable to the wiles of others, a jaybird would be vulnerable indeed.See also: jaybird, nakednaked as a jaybird
Synonyms for naked as a jaybirdadj (used informally) completely unclothedSynonyms- bare-ass
- bare-assed
- in the altogether
- in the buff
- in the raw
- peeled
- stark naked
- raw
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