tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542665086782631608.post300148480189386409..comments2023-10-16T02:00:30.659-07:00Comments on Bare Platypus: NAKED OR NUDE?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793741311723521178noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542665086782631608.post-89027586113486083512013-03-17T04:00:16.043-07:002013-03-17T04:00:16.043-07:00There's also the spiritual reference to being ...There's also the spiritual reference to being naked, when people call themselves "Skyclad"... being clothed with nothing but the air all around us, the sky and sun above. Combine that with being "Earth-shod", when referring to walking barefoot, and you have the spiritual connection of nudity to believers in the divinity of Nature.<br /><br />So, when wanting to be a little poetic and shine my barefoot and naked spiritual self, I call myself "Earth-Shod and Skyclad". And I am also helping in coining the term for spiritual nakedness by calling myself a "Nuddhist". :-)<br /><br />From the list of terms you presented, I'd choose "naked" as my favourite, since it's the most familiar term in my native German language, too (and derived from it).~*Ganesha*~https://www.blogger.com/profile/04492208779822782840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542665086782631608.post-64424639167681388802013-03-16T21:40:07.728-07:002013-03-16T21:40:07.728-07:00"Naked as a jaybird" was in use in Texas..."Naked as a jaybird" was in use in Texas in the mid- to late 1930s; I first heard it from my grandmother who was from Crawford, County, Georgia, so it may well be older than that. Jays, like most birds (other than ground or water nesting species) are altricial.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08086663275916786457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542665086782631608.post-63634583479805736062013-03-16T10:41:06.277-07:002013-03-16T10:41:06.277-07:00On the class distinction between "nude" ...On the class distinction between "nude" and "naked", y'all might like the following (from www.etymonline.com). The tl;dr is that, like lots of words with nearly equivalent meanings in modern English, the high-class one is from French and the low-class one is from Anglo-Saxon.<br /><br />My own preference for Anglo-Saxon origins should have me using "naked" more often than "nude", but there's also interference from my using "nudist" rather than "naturist" since people know what nudists are but are often confused about what naturists might be. So I probably use "nude" more often than "naked", but I'd like it to be the other way around.<br /><br />=========<br /><br />naked (adj.) <br />Old English nacod "nude, bare; empty," also "not fully clothed," from Proto-Germanic *nakwathaz (cf. Old Frisian nakad, Middle Dutch naket, Dutch naakt, Old High German nackot, German nackt, Old Norse nökkviðr, Old Swedish nakuþer, Gothic naqaþs "naked"), from PIE root *nogw- "naked" (cf. Sanskrit nagna, Hittite nekumant-, Old Persian *nagna-, Greek gymnos, Latin nudus, Lithuanian nuogas, Old Church Slavonic nagu-, Russian nagoi, Old Irish nocht, Welsh noeth "bare, naked"). Related: Nakedly; nakedness. Applied to qualities, actions, etc., from late 14c. (first in "The Cloud of Unknowing"); phrase naked truth is from 1585, in Alexander Montgomerie's "The Cherry and the Slae":<br />Which thou must (though it grieve thee) grant <br />I trumped never a man. <br />But truely told the naked trueth, <br />To men that meld with mee, <br />For neither rigour, nor for rueth, <br />But onely loath to lie. <br />[Montgomerie, 1585]<br />Phrase naked as a jaybird (1943) was earlier naked as a robin (1879, in a Shropshire context); the earliest known comparative based on it was naked as a needle (late 14c.). Naked eye is from 1660s, unnecessary in the world before telescopes and microscopes.<br /><br />nude (n.) <br />"nude figure in visual art," 1708, from French nud, obsolete variant of nu "naked, nude, bare," from Latin nudus (see nude (adj.)).<br /><br />nude (adj.) <br />1530s, a legal term, "unsupported, not formally attested," from Latin nudus "naked, bare, unclothed, stripped" (see naked). General sense of "mere, plain, simple" attested from 1550s. In reference to the human body, meaning "unclothed," it is an artistic euphemism for naked, dating from 1610s (implied in nudity) but not in common use in this sense until mid-19c.<br /><br />Pete Schulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107593040254606556noreply@blogger.com