Stark naked
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv.
Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --Shak.
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Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
--Fuller.
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{Stark naked}, wholly naked; quite bare.
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Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak.
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Note: According to Professor Skeat, "stark-naked" is derived
from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally
tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology
be true the preferable form is stark-naked.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "stark naked":
bald, bare, bare-ass, gymnosophical, in native buff,
in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw,
naked, naturistic, nude, nudist, peeled, raw, stripped, unclad,
unclothed, undressed, with nothing on, without a stitch
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