| 词汇 | stark naked |
| 词源 | stark naked. Although stark was a common Middle English word meaning “strong” and is sometimes used to intensify oth- er words, as in stark raving mad, it has nothing to do with stark naked. The original form of stark naked was start naked, start here being a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon steort, meaning “tail or rump.” Someone stark naked is therefore literally “naked even to the rump.” |
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