starkers

形容词 adj.
/ˈstɑːkəz/    /ˈstɑɹkɚz/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Completely nude. UK,not-comparable,slang
    — Entering the bathroom, I found Bill there, still starkers after his bath.
  2. Stark raving mad. informal,not-comparable

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* "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
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