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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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Wanda | | VAHN-dah (Polish), WAHN-də (English) | Polish, English, German, French |
| Waldhar | | - | Ancient Germanic |
| Parthenia | | par-THEE-nee-ə (English) | Greek Mythology |
| Shikha | | - | Indian, Hindi |
| Urbano | | oor-BAH-no | Italian, Spanish |
| Jozua | | YO-zuy-ah | Dutch |