Do you say "butt naked" or "buck naked?"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Poll question: Do you say "butt naked" or "buck naked?"

[seaglass]

1. Haha. I looked it up a while back because I always thought it was buck naked but saw

so many people using butt naked that I figured either tons of people didn't know what it was supposed to be or something had changed :-)

In any case it appears that the origin of buck naked has some negative connotations and that might be why so many say butt naked.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I always assumed it was buck, but that people misheard it as butt, because it makes

sense in that you take your clothing off, your butt is nekkid. :shrug:

[seaglass]

5. Yes that's what I thought too. It's actually a pet peeve of mine that I am trying to get over.

:-)

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Same here. LOL

[mainegreen]

2. Butt

Because that's the part that's nekkid.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Very logical!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Where I grew up, people always used "buck naked". Where I live now,

I hear most people using "butt naked". Either way, everyone seems to know what you mean.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Just plain "nekkid" gets the idea across, but...

some reason we have to add modifiers, as if the word itself is unclear. (How is "batshit crazy" crazier than just plain "crazy"?)

I always assumed the "buck" thing referred to whomever our forbears thought of as savages-- those "young bucks" hunting deer or working the cotton fields. So, there is that nagging fear of savage sexuality that adds a steamy emphasis to "naked" when you add "buck" to it.

Just plain "naked" is funny when you think of guys wearing barrels or other comedy routines. Or, it's something Freudian when you dream of being caught naked. But "buck naked" adds the scary thought that that nekkid guy over there can screw my woman better than I can.

(Or, if you're the woman...)

[dropkickpa]

9. butt nekkid

But I've heard all 3 ways.

[Recursion]

10. "buck naked" but "butt nekid" (nt)

[AlienGirl]

11. "Buck naked" is the original but I say "butt nekkid" because it is funnier! nt

[dimbear]

12. I like stark naked better. It conveys the feeling of horror and dread better. n/t

[nolabear]

14. And makes a far better porn star name.

[Denninmi]

13. How can you not love "Buck Naked"???

"Buck Naked, Porn Star" - George Louis Costanza, 'Seinfeld'

[hedgehog]

15. Years ago, we were listening to the local NPR station on Christmas Eve.

Along about 3PM, after hour of Christmas stuff, they ran the Western Drama of Buck Naked, and his brothers Stark and Bear. It was wonderfully downhill from there.

[madinmaryland]

16. Other: "butt-ass nekkid"

:P

[HopeHoops]

17. nekkid

[meow2u3]

18. I call it "stark naked"

Either that, or "in one's birthday suit."

[nolabear]

19. Well it MUST be time to hear from Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys

http://youtu.be/EBqqApNzgo0

(I went for this one because it's not totally creepy porn. I get a kick out of them but sometimes...ew)

[woofless]

20. Yes.

[hifiguy]

21. IIRC there was once a band called Buck Naked and

the Car Thieves.

That gem and Billy Bacon and His Forbidden Pigs belong in the Band Name Hall of Fame.