birthday-suit
birthday suit
noun
bare skin; nakedness: They were sunbathing in their birthday suits.
Origin:
1745–55
1745–55
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| birthday suit | |
| —n | |
| informal, jocular a state of total nakedness, as at birth | |
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Birthday-suit
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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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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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