bareskin

adj

Etymology

From bare + skin.

  1. derived from *sken- — “to split off
  2. derived from *skinþą
  3. derived from skinn — “animal hide
  4. inherited from scinn
  5. inherited from skyn
  6. compounded as bareskin — “bare + skin

Definitions

  1. Not wearing clothing

    Not wearing clothing; not covered by clothing, hair, feathers, etc.

    • A bare-skin boy did guide my feet— A boy with pretty, pouting ways: And oh, ’twas shrewd deceit!
    • 1931, Hugh Walpole, Judith Paris, London: Macmillan, Part 2, “The Clipping,” p. 356, He sat there thinking of his youth, of fighting a man bare-skin in White haven and throttling him […]
  2. In which participants do not wear clothing. (of an activity or event)

    • She believed herself to be free of morbid modesty—she recalled suddenly that she had gone on her first bareskin swimming party at fifteen.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA