starkers
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈstɑːkəz/
美 /ˈstɑɹkɚz/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
-
Completely nude.
— Entering the bathroom, I found Bill there, still starkers after his bath.
- Stark raving mad.
词汇关系
词源
* "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
* "crazy": stark (“shortening of stark raving mad”) + -ers
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