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bare-arse en · ADJ

Etymology

From bare + arse.

Meanings

  1. (literally, not-comparable) With the buttocks exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
  2. (broadly, not-comparable) Stark naked.
    • "I sleep bare-arse, Mrs. Bayram, always have, which you can come and check out any time you like." 1990, Daniel Pollock, Lair of the Fox, HarperCollins, published 1990, →ISBN, page 304:
    • "You exchanged vows bare-arse naked in front of an archangel?" 2012, Sandra Hill, Kiss of Pride, HarperCollins, published 2012, →ISBN:
    • So he's pounding them off and is away over the hill in sweet dreams, and Clarice tippy-toes into the bedroom as quiet as fog coming off a millpond, and she takes off her clothes and stands there bare-arse looking out the window in the moonlight. 1969, John Gould, The Jonesport Raffle, and Numerous Other Maine Veracities, Little, Brown and Company, page 25:

Forms

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Synonyms

bare-bum · bare-butt · bareass

Translations (4)

fr cul-nu (with the buttocks exposed) · af kaalgat (with the buttocks exposed) · pl z gołym tyłkiem (with the buttocks exposed) · fr nu-le-cul (with the buttocks exposed)