Buck naked or butt naked

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Option	Votes
Buck naked	39
Butt naked	29

― Euler, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:49 (ten years ago)

butt-ass naked

― marcos, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:49 (ten years ago)

nude as the news

― marcos, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:50 (ten years ago)

naked as a jaybird

― the tune was space, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:11 (ten years ago)

use both.

― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:13 (ten years ago)

starkers

― the tune was space, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:15 (ten years ago)

in my birthday suit

― the tune was space, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:15 (ten years ago)

buck is more traditional. butt is the newer coinage. voted old school.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)

in the nip

― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:16 (ten years ago)

in puris naturalibus

without so much as a fig leaf

― jmm, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:22 (ten years ago)

"I wanna see you the way you came into the world" - Barry White, "Love Serenade"

― the tune was space, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:24 (ten years ago)

NUDE AS THE NEWS

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:30 (ten years ago)

Buck naked for getting rowdy. Butt naked for good clean fun.

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:31 (ten years ago)

nakey

― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:33 (ten years ago)

in the buff

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:43 (ten years ago)

have "long" wondered whether the "buck" of "buck naked" has anything to do with "put her in the buck"

― Euler, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:43 (ten years ago)

business nude

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:45 (ten years ago)

simply nude

― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:45 (ten years ago)

not a stitch of clothing

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:47 (ten years ago)

nakeybutt

― Euler, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:48 (ten years ago)

in the all together

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:49 (ten years ago)

set free

― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:51 (ten years ago)

The standard expression is “buck naked,” and the contemporary “butt naked” is an error that will get you laughed at in some circles. However, it might be just as well if the new form were to triumph. Originally a “buck” was a dandy, a pretentious, overdressed show-off of a man. Condescendingly applied in the US to Native Americans and black slaves, it quickly acquired negative connotations. To the historically aware speaker, “buck naked” conjures up stereotypical images of naked “savages” or—worse—slaves laboring naked on plantations. Consider using the alternative expression “stark naked.”

― sleepingsignal, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:54 (ten years ago)

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/is-it-butt-naked-or-buck-naked.html

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:55 (ten years ago)

skyclad

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:58 (ten years ago)

nekkid

― marcos, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:59 (ten years ago)

buck

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:02 (ten years ago)

Buck Nekkid has a more pleasing consonance and wd make the better nom de porn

― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:10 (ten years ago)

stark bollock

― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:35 (ten years ago)

i don't watch that show, sorry

― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)

Buck Nekkid has a more pleasing consonance and wd make the better nom de porn

There was a Rev. Buck Naked in the Church of the Subgenius. Apparently he and Stang had a falling out.

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:38 (ten years ago)

I've gradually shifted from buck naked to butt nekkid over the years. "Stark raving nude" an occasional alternative.

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:40 (ten years ago)

shameful

― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:46 (ten years ago)

as god made me

― Aimless, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MX1leC30b0

Ice-T votes for "butt naked"

― the tune was space, Thursday, 4 September 2014 00:28 (ten years ago)

A friend recently told me that she used to think the expression was "butt wild", not "buck wild"

― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 4 September 2014 13:06 (ten years ago)

This is a good thread to mention that, when "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band came out in 1981, I was 11 going on 12. I knew what a centerfold was and understood the gist of the song, but when Peter Wolf sang "to see her in that negligee was nearly just too much," I thought he was singing "to see her in that naked jay was nearly just too much." I had no idea what a negligee was, so my brain just filled with the closest thing that made sense. ("Sense")

― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Thursday, 4 September 2014 13:08 (ten years ago)

Buck naked? What? Did you make that up?

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 4 September 2014 13:19 (ten years ago)

"They're not even wearing a smile. Nod suggestively."

― jmm, Thursday, 4 September 2014 14:08 (ten years ago)

I prefer "buck" bcz of that flasher on Hill Street Blues.

"Naked as a jaybird" first heard in the Northeast via the novelty hit "The Streak" I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxUfg3uCBbg

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 September 2014 13:50 (ten years ago)

Buttez Nekid

― Boston Bun is also an electronic music artist (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 6 September 2014 11:27 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)

In the nuddy

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 07:10 (ten years ago)

Dammit beaten to the Ice T track

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 07:24 (ten years ago)

Fuck naked.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:58 (ten years ago)

I didn't know anyone said butt naked. Weird.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:54 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:01 (ten years ago)

butt lost the battle but la lotta continua

― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:14 (ten years ago)

naked as the day you were born

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)

naked as the way god made me

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:02 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

either way
it's the only way

― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 04:11 (five years ago)

au naturel

― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 05:42 (five years ago)

https://www.theonion.com/theres-a-nude-sheriff-in-town-1819584227

― a very powerful woman in the dog world (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:07 (five years ago)

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