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Meanings of mother-naked in English

As naked as at birth.

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        Usage of mother-naked in English
        1
        Dom was mother-naked, except where dry salt rimed his black skin.
        The dark side of the sun
        2
        Mac swung himself up to a sitting position and realized dizzily that he was mother-naked.
        Tight Squeeze
        3
        Tommy is fairly tough; but he cannot live mother-naked through a March night of driving sleet.
        The Red Planet
        4
        Then cast me into this pool and I will be turned back into a mother-naked man.
        More English Fairy Tales
        5
        If you two are going, I shall come also, if I have to do so mother-naked.
        Allan and the Holy Flower
        6
        He was mother-naked and the howling wind and rain buffeted his body and the stones cut his feet.
        Fortitude
        7
        Some were tricked out with ornaments and skins and feathers; some were mother-naked and painted all over their bodies.
        Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories
        8
        Isn't there a latent exhibitionism in casting your clothes to the wind and stepping out mother-naked into the sunshine?
        The Irish Times
        9
        He did not wield the ready, punctual pen of him whom Lockhart most invidiously calls "the bronzed and mother-naked gentleman of the Press."
        The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01
        10
        On Saturday evening he had to take off his rags, and creep, mother- naked, into her bed.
        Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
        11
        'If you dunna take needle to that, you'll be mother-naked afore a week's out,' said Abel indifferently.
        Gone to Earth
        12
        "A mother-naked man," in a wilderness, with a flood between him and his raiment, was in a pitiable position.
        Adventures Among Books
        13
        'The first thing that the Peruvian did was to take off all his clothes, and then he came into the dim circle of light mother-naked.
        Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases: Seventeen Short Stories