English
Etymology
From Middle English stert naked (steort nakt, sternaked, star naked); the first element is from Old English steort (“tail”). The change from "start-naked" to "stark-naked" was most likely by folk etymology due to a misinterpretation of the phrase as being a way of saying "starkly naked" ("strongly naked, harshly naked").
Adjective
stark naked (not comparable)
- Completely naked.
Synonyms
Translations
completely naked
- Bulgarian: чисто гол (čisto gol)
- Catalan: conill (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 赤裸裸 (zh) (chìluǒluǒ), 全裸 (zh) (quánluǒ)
- Faroese: spilnakin, blóðnakin, heilt nakin
- Finnish: ilkosillaan (fi), ilkosen alasti (fi), ilkialasti
- French: à poil (fr)
- German: splitternackt (de), splitterfasernackt (de), fasernackt
- Indonesian: telanjang bulat (id)
- Irish: tarnocht
- Japanese: 真っ裸 (ja) (まっぱだか, mappadaka), 素っ裸 (ja) (すっぱだか, suppadaka), 全裸 (ja) (ぜんら, zenra)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: чармаа нүцгэн (čarmaa nücgen), чармаа шалдан (čarmaa šaldan)
- Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠷᠠᠮᠠ
ᠨᠢᠴᠦᢉᠦᠨ, ᠴᠢᠷᠠᠮᠠ
ᠱᠠᠯᠳᠠᠩ (čiram-a šaldang)
- Portuguese: à pai Adão (pt)
- Romanian: gol nap, gol pușcă, gol ca degetul
- Spanish: en pelotas (es)
- Swedish: spritt språngande naken
- Welsh: noethlymun (cy)
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Noun
stark naked (uncountable)
- (slang, archaic) Raw gin.
- Synonym: strip me naked
1870, Langford Cecil, Fenacre Grange, page 15:"Give us a glass of 'stark naked,' Job! This plaguey fog's well nigh choked me," said Rube, spluttering and coughing, and vituperating it.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary