Birth-day suit

birthday suit

noun
bare skin; nakedness: They were sunbathing in their birthday suits.
Origin:
1745–55

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birthday suit
 
—n
informal, jocular a state of total nakedness, as at birth

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Word Origin & History

birthday suit
first attested 1730s, but probably much older. The notion is the suit of clothes one was born in, i.e., no clothes at all. Cf. M.E. mother naked "naked as the day one was born;" M.Du. moeder naect, Ger. mutternackt.
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birthday suit definition


To be “in one's birthday suit” is to be completely naked (as people are at birth).

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