birthday suit

Nakedness, as in The doorbell rang, and here I was in my birthday suit. In 18th-century Britain this term originally referred to the clothes one wore on the king's birthday. Later it was jocularly transferred to bare skin, alluding to the condition of a newborn baby.

birthday suit

Wearing no clothes. People said to be in their birthday suit are as naked as the day they were born.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rhys	HREES (Welsh), REES (English)	Welsh
Dow	[dau]
Forbes	-	Scottish
ÇAĞAtay	-	Turkish
Imelda	ee-MEL-dah	Italian, Spanish
Adeodatus	-	Late Roman