Is it "Butt Naked" or "Buck Naked"?

[StClone]

I corrected a bar tender and she sort of gave me the Dick Cheney scowl. Which is correct, acceptable or preferred?

She was making small talk about "with all this snow...jump from a sauna into the powder butt naked..."

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Buck

[krkaufman]

6. Buck

Being write doesn't necessarily precede gratitude.

[bubblesby2002]

2. buck naked, buck naked, buck naked.

nt

[rooboy]

3. I understand it to be "butt naked"...

I believe it was George Costanza who decided to name his porn star character "Buck Naked".

[Mass_Liberal]

4. BUCK NAKED

buck sounds cooler. Buck naked! Nice ring to it.

[tridim]

5. Is it "crank call" or "prank call"?

n/t

[HereSince1628]

7. just so it wasn't nekid...that involves fornication!

[madrchsod]

8. "i`d like to order a butt"

" i`m in the drive up ,dumb ass" couldn`t resist ,when i read butt...

[StClone]

9. EYES are on Buck Naked

I almost apologized (I did tip well) but feel vindicated that BUCK has it.

[Nicholas_J]

10. Both are perhaps correct:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

buck-naked

SYLLABICATION: buck-na·ked
PRONUNCIATION: bknkd
ADVERB & ADJECTIVE: Chiefly Southern U.S. Bare-naked.
ETYMOLOGY: buck- (perhaps alteration of butt4) + naked.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/77/B0527700.html

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

bare-naked

SYLLABICATION: bare-na·ked
PRONUNCIATION: bârnkd, -nkd
ADVERB & ADJECTIVE: Chiefly Northern U.S. With no clothes on.
REGIONAL NOTE: The chiefly Northern U.S. expression bare-naked illustrates the linguistic process of redundancy, not always acceptable in Standard English but productive in regional dialect speech. A redundant expression combines two words that mean the same thing, thereby intensifying the effect. The expression buck-naked, used chiefly in the South Atlantic and Gulf states, is not as clear as bare-naked with respect to its origin; buck is possibly an alteration of butt, “buttocks.” If so, bum-naked, heard in various parts of the country, and bare-ass(ed), attested especially in the Northeastern U.S., represent the same idea.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/62/B0076200.html

[StClone]

14. Thanks

More the merrier...I hadn't thought of the connections. I always thought it was "buck" as in a prized buck (deer) skinned.

[unblock]

11. actually, it's "buck henry"

thanks for playing!

[MrScorpio]

12. No, It's Buck Naykidd

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[davidinalameda]

13. I've heard both

so either one would probably be acceptable

[dweller]

15. And you corrected her?

<sigh> i'da just gone with the imagery.

Butt naked.
Buck nekkid.

your choice,
depends on the context.

dp

[MrScorpio]

16. Let's go for something new:

Ass Nude

Doe Unclothed

[thebaghwan]

17. OK, either is correct and acceptable

n/t

[jean]

18. buck

but lots of younger people say butt. As long as naked is in there I guess we get the gist. (is that with a g or a j?)

[mitchtv]

19. buck

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[tishaLA]

20. used ot be "buck"

but hip hoppers everywhere know "butt" is now preferred

[Lisa]

21. regional/generational differences?

Hey, it could be that BOTH are right.

Growing up (Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s and 80s) -- I heard people saying "buck-naked".

But out here on the West Coast, "butt-naked" seems to be a lot more popular.

Anybody else notice any geographical differences?

[Zomby Woof]

22. buck

Take it from a semi-southerner who knows this term.