Expressions related to nudity

[Gary Naturist]

There are lots of funny or weird expressions that relate to nudity and nudism. What can you add to this list?

Nudist colony
Prancing around nude
Running around nude
Parading it down the beach (erection)
Waving it around (erection)
Naked as a Jay bird
Stark naked
Buck naked
Butt naked

Gary

[Gary Naturist]

There are lots of funny or weird expressions that relate to nudity and nudism. What can you add to this list?

Nudist colony
Prancing around nude
Running around nude
Parading it down the beach (erection)
Waving it around (erection)
Naked as a Jay bird
Stark naked
Buck naked
Butt naked

Gary

[Buzzer]

AU NATURAL ?

[noodtoonist]

nekkid
nuddy
wearing your birthday suit
naked as the day he/she was born
starkers (this might be an aussie term!)

Of course we'd have to add...Bare...Bare-a**ed and let it all hang out...Outdoor bare /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[kelly99]

Not a stich on
Bare assed (or arssed if your Irish)

[OZJames]

EXHIBITIONIST !!!

[Naturist Mark]

There are some terms that someone else referred to as 'media baby talk' when talking about nudism. These are words seldom used in any other context:

cavort - cavorting
frolic - frolicing
prance - prancing

apparently nudists move in a way entirely different from clothed people, thus requiring special verbs.

Words I've heard nudists use:

playing nakey (also sounds a bit like baby talk)
canuding


-Mark

[noodtoonist]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Naturist Mark:
apparently nudists move in a way entirely different from clothed people, thus requiring special verbs. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>that is a very funny observation mark - might see if i can't work it into a cartoon sometime!

[Rex]

Every Australian seems to know what "in the nicky" means and this expression is used by most Australians with great affection and absolutely no sense of shock etc.
On reflection, maybe this is a West Australian term. Perhaps one of those alien people on the other side of the rabbit proof fence could enlighten me on this.

[hw]

How about "In The Buff"? A widely used term for many years, has now taken on new meanings.
My daughter once refered to a boy in school as " Buff" or "Buffed", meaning he had been working out and had built up his muscles. Then the term "Buff" changed to mean a good looking. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif
The funniest thing I've heard was on a TV show. "Slap me naked and call me wanda!" ( Never quite understood that one) /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Aaron Adams]

I could have missed something but everyone seems to have forgotten the most obvious term related to nudity ... clothesfree. This term and the related term topfree are interesting to me because they suggest clothes are a prison and not something that a naked person lacks. The words clothesfree and topless are examples of how words can be used to subtly convey ideological messages.

[missouriboy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Naturist Mark:
There are some terms that someone else referred to as 'media baby talk' when talking about nudism... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yours truly. /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

Buzzer: "Au Natural"
Not really. It's just a different language, French, for "in the nude." And it's spelled au naturel. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

hw: "Well slap me naked..."
Did'ja ever notice how Charlie Brown gets knocked nekkid when someone hits his pitches? /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[noodtoonist]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rex:
Every Australian seems to know what "in the nicky" ... maybe this is a West Australian term. Perhaps one of those alien people on the other side of the rabbit proof fence could enlighten me on this. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>can't say i've heard of it rex, it may be something only you sandgropers* use! (btw i lived in perth as a kid, not born there though)
*for those outside oz - this is a term for western australian!
stephen

[Jochanaan]

A dear lady friend once told me she cleaned house "in the nuddy" on hot days.

Au naturel actually means what it appears to: according to nature. The ordinary French word for naked is nu.

[Rex]

"In the nuddy" is also a common expression in Western Australia.
By the way, the term "sandgroper" does not mean that West Australians are renowned for groping in the sand.

[Gary Naturist]

There's also bare-assed naked.

Gary

[Gary Naturist]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gary Naturist:
There's also bare-assed naked.

Gary <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Added note: One that got by the INA police!

[BunzFan]

I have also heard the expression "In the all-together", though I never knew what "all" was
supposedly "together" in this case.
Maybe because it's an all-together wonderful feeling?! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
Or maybe the person had his confidence and his comfort-zone really all-together! /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
In any case, it feels great to go to a C/O beach and be all together with others in the "all-together"!!!

[Naturist Mark]

gallivant

[NakedGary]

When I lived in Australia a gal said she would knock me up in the morning!

"Means wake up"


NakedGary

[MikeJB]

Maybe if we used terms like clothesfree and au natural instead of nude, naked, nekkid and all those other lame terms then maybe people would accept it as something more normal and maybe even more artistic and not something digusting or lewd. I mean you could still be saying "naked" but not in a dirty sense and if people think about it in a more wholesome way then theyre more likely to accept it.

[aunaturelone]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>And it's spelled au naturel. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Not after the typical US newspaper gets ahold of it. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Au naturel is French for "in the natural state" and is a French euphenism for nu, which became in English, "nude".

"Nature boy" is a somewhat derisive name textiles may give to a guy who is now - or has a reputation for being - au natural. Never heard the term "nature girl" used for a naked lady though.

"Naked" comes from the German word nackt. If you study the English language you frequently find that when we have two words to describe the same concept, one is often French and the other is German. The German word would have been used by the early Anglo-Saxons and the French word brought in by the later Norman conquerers. The French words took on a classier, more sophisticated nuance relative to the German equivalent, hence "nude" vrs. "naked".

I once had a T-shirt made up that read fete au naturel. Very few people figured out it meant "party naked".

[Rik]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by aunaturelone:
Au naturel is French for "in the natural state" and is a French euphenism for nu, which became in English, "nude". <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Just to be pedantic for a moment, whilst you are right that "au naturel" is French for "in the natural state" it is not used by the French to mean nude or naked - only by English speakers.

In French it tends to mean plain or unadorned such as "yaourt au naturel" - plain yoghourt.

The French euphemism for nude is "a poil" (with an accent over the 'a') which translates loosely as "in you skin" although 'poil' literally means body hair.

There's a town in France called Poil so this can cause much hilarity to French school children when they visit for they can announce to the world "Je suis a Poil" and then fall about laughing. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Rik

[missouriboy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by aunaturelone:
Not after the typical US newspaper gets ahold of it. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yeah, because the typical US newspaper is staffed by the same victims of our government indoctrination centers as every other enterprise is nowadays. Our newspapers used to be a grand source for learning correct English, but now even they are beginning to mangle it. Especially in advertising and commentaries, where they allow errors like "everyday" to mean "daily," for example. This stuff is happening more and more, or as some would write: alot. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[WNYjoe]

I am thinking the expression "Well slap me naked and call me Wanda" must have a tie back to the movie "A Fish Called Wanda" released about 5 years or so ago in the US. Anyone familiar enpugh with the movie to confimrm that?

Joe

[Naturist Mark]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by WNYjoe:
I am thinking the expression "Well slap me naked and call me Wanda" must have a tie back to the movie "A Fish Called Wanda" released about 5 years or so ago in the US. Anyone familiar enpugh with the movie to confimrm that?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Nope, don't recall that quote from the movie. A Fish Called Wanda (http://imdb.com/title/tt0095159/) was released in 1988. How time flies!

A google search shows that Kelly Ripa's character on All My Children said "Well slap me naked and call me Wanda" sometime in 2000. But nothing new or original happens on soaps, so it must be much older than that.

A similar quote: It's so good, you can slap my fishy *** and call me Wanda was used in a 1999 review (http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=410&reviewer=3) of A Fish Called Wanda

Well slap me naked and hide my clothes is an old saying. But I've been unable to track down its etymology.

-Mark

[Naturist Mark]

sashay

[nunne]

Not quite a description of nudism, but I always thought the phrase "slow as a nudist crawling through a barbed wire fence" had some humorous implications.

[melissastarr]

streaking: it's not just about cleaning windows anymore

[Sundance36]

Speaking of streaking the Sopkane streakers will be on jay leno tomrrow night. 1-28-04 /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[leshrac]

how about "wearing nothing but sunshine?"

[anblopc98321]

Was Starkers mentioned?

[butnaked]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by anblopc98321:
Was Starkers mentioned? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yes. but not Stark-naked?!
and was buttnaked but not but?naked

Happy Trails /infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif