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birthday suit
noun
bare skin; nakedness: They were sunbathing in their birthday suits.
Origin:
1745–55
1745–55
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Birthday suit
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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World English Dictionary
| 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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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
birthday suit definition
To be “in one's birthday suit” is to be completely naked (as people are at birth).
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
birthday suit
Nakedness, as in The doorbell rang, and here I was in my birthday suit. In 18th-century Britain this term originally referred to the clothes one wore on the king's birthday. Later it was jocularly transferred to bare skin, alluding to the condition of a newborn baby.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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