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English Dictionary: stark naked by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stark naked
adj
  1. (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: {bare- assed}, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stark \Stark\, adv.
      Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. --Shak.
  
               Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
                                                                              --Fuller.
  
      {Stark naked}, wholly naked; quite bare.
  
                     Strip your sword stark naked.            --Shak.
  
      Note: According to Professor Skeat, [bd]stark-naked[b8] 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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