naked as a jaybird
2
9.5
- idiom
- NSFW
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completamente desnudo
- VLT This dude naked as a jaybird strutting down the parking lot.
Examples
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Here she was, in the President's bed, naked as a jaybird, with armed guards outside the door.
Fiction book (1991) -
Put on some clothes, Rose, you're naked as a jaybird.
Fiction book (1991) -
I saw her... Naked as a jaybird.
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- Well lookie there, that one's naked as a jaybird.
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Came pourin' in about three days later, naked as a jaybird and reeking of her medicine.
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I stumbled across her last week halfway up the hill to Sun Cave, stretched out naked as a jaybird, just the way you saw her.
Fiction book (1993) -
You drop naked as a jaybird on the busiest dock in Oakland at damn near high noon with half of Northern California looking on?
Fiction book (1994) -
To radar beams, the goddess was as naked as a jaybird, with the spacecraft poised to expose her every flaw.
Academic text (1993) -
When he accidentally walked into the room, he realized he was naked as a jaybird in front of everyone.
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At the beach, she felt the sun on her skin, completely naked as a jaybird and free.
Synonyms
982
1.0
Not wearing any clothes on the body
89
3.7
Not wearing any clothes
20
8.5
Completely without clothes
7
4.6
Completely without any clothes
6
9.3
Not wearing any clothes
4
3.7
Not wearing any clothes
2
9.6
Completely without clothes with the bottom showing
2
9.9
Completely without clothes
2
9.0
Not wearing any clothes
Completely without clothes, as when someone is born
Completely without clothes like at birth
A person who has no clothes on
A person who has no clothes on
Completely without clothes on
Not wearing any clothes
Antonyms
How Naked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'naked' already conveys being unclothed, the simile 'as a jaybird' does not transparently intensify or clarify that meaning because 'jaybird' has no natural association with nudity; the comparison is arbitrary and idiomatic. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would be unlikely to predict that the whole expression means 'completely naked', and the construction is not a predictable, cross-linguistic compositional pattern.
Etymology
The idiom naked as a jaybird comes from a simple picture: one popular story says that when a jaybird loses its feathers it looks very bare or naked. So saying someone is naked as a jaybird means they are 'completely naked'.