Re: Re: whence BUCK NAKED?

[Sam Clements]

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From: <RonButters at AOL.COM>
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>M-W's predating must predate such archival resources >as Newspaperarchive.
I
>guess that would be the place to look for raw (pun >intended) data.

You can find cites in newpaperarchive from the early 50's for "buck naked"
but nothing(even into the 1990's) for "butt naked."  I guess those mainly
mid-American papers were still afraid to use "butt."

Sam Clements