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In the buff   /ɪn ðə bəf/   Listen
In the buff

adjective
1.
(used informally) completely unclothed.  Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, raw, stark naked.






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"In the buff" Quotes from Famous Books



... lad, of very small stature, who had a kind of charge of the poultry under the old henwife; for in a Scottish family of that day there was a wonderful substitution of labour. This urchin being sent for from the stubble-field, was hastily muffled in the buff coat, and girded rather to than with the sword of a full-grown man, his little legs plunged into jack-boots, and a steel cap put upon his head, which seemed, from its size, as if it had been intended to extinguish ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "In the buff" :   peeled, unclothed, colloquialism



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