half-naked en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English half naked, from Old English healfnacod, from Proto-Germanic *halbanakwadaz; equivalent to half- + naked.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) With very few clothes on.
Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse.
1847, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Old Death”, in The Mysteries of London, volume III (volume I, Second Series), London: G. Vickers, […], →OCLC, page 66, column 1:[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.
1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87:Back there in the rolling, olive-clad hills is a splendid region of whose existence most of the visitors to the Riviera are unaware. There are no garish restaurants or casinos, no hot doggeries or Slopsy-kola signs, no half-naked women or twitching varicose veins being paraded.
1960, Stephen Lister [pseudonym; Digby George Gerahty], chapter 12, in In Search of Paradise, London: Peter Davies, →OCLC, page 162:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| half naked | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
semi-naked · seminaked · semi-nude · seminude
Translations (27)
la sēminūdus (with very few clothes on) · ang healfnacod (with very few clothes on) · cs polonahý (with very few clothes on) · ru полуго́лый (with very few clothes on) · es semidesnudo (with very few clothes on) · az yarımçılpaq (with very few clothes on) · eo duonnuda (with very few clothes on) · cmn 半裸體 /半裸体 (with very few clothes on) · fr demi-nu (with very few clothes on) · pl półgoły (with very few clothes on) · it seminuda (with very few clothes on) · hu félmeztelen (with very few clothes on) · fi puolialaston (with very few clothes on) · it seminudo (with very few clothes on) · pt seminu (with very few clothes on) · ja 半裸体の (with very few clothes on) · lt pusnuogis (with very few clothes on) · sv halvnaken (with very few clothes on) · gl semiespido (with very few clothes on) · ja 半裸の (with very few clothes on) · el ημίγυμνος (with very few clothes on) · fr à moitié nu (with very few clothes on) · pl półnagi (with very few clothes on) · az yarımlüt (with very few clothes on) · gl semiespida (with very few clothes on) · de halbnackt (with very few clothes on) · et poolalasti (with very few clothes on)