nekkid

[Charles C Doyle]

And the synecdoche "butt naked" parallels the Middle English idiom "belly naked"--obsolete, as far as I am aware.

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Charles C Doyle [cdoyle at UGA.EDU]
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:58 AM


I've always sort of liked "butt naked"!  It's so vivid, picturesque . . . .

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Wilson Gray [hwgray at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:17 PM
Well, that's all right, I reckon. Now, if there were only a way to
delete from the AmE-speaking language-organ the abominable reanalysis,
_butt-_nekkid!;-)
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-Wilson

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