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starkers

adj
/ˈstɑːkəz/UK/ˈstɑɹkɚz/US

Etymology

* "naked": British slang, from 1923, combining (like a popular etymology) two meanings of stark (“strong, utterly; barren”) with stark naked, which is from Old English steort (“tail”), referring to the tail-end (as in butt-naked). * "crazy": stark (“shortening of stark raving mad”) + -ers

  1. derived from *(s)terg-✻ — “rigid, stiff”
  2. inherited from *starkuz✻ — “stiff, strong”
  3. inherited from *stark✻
  4. inherited from stearc
  5. inherited from stark
  6. suffixed as starkers — “stark + ers”

Definitions

  1. Completely nude.

    • Entering the bathroom, I found Bill there, still starkers after his bath.

  2. Stark raving mad.

The neighborhood

Derived

Harry starkers

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