bare-arsed adj.
1. naked; also fig. use as lacking energy, means or supplies.
Proverbs in Farmer (1906) I Ch. ix: There is nothing more vain, as yourself tell can, Than to beg a breech of a bare-arsed man. | ||
Diogenes Lanthorne 35: Yet we thou seest goe bare-arse all, For each man to deride: I tell thee brother Asse I blush, To see mine owne backe-side. | ||
Proverbs 3: To beg breeches of a bare-ars’t man. | ||
Your Own Beloved Sons 81: You going on that bare-arse patrol, up that valley? [...] Up that valley in two bare-arse jeeps. | ||
Walk in the Night (1968) 73: ‘Ah effit,’ Willieboy sneered. ‘You bare-arsed bastard. You got nothing.’. | ||
(con. 1941) Gunner 123: But if they were so barearse, like you say, why did they send us to Greece at all? | ||
Separate Development 151: ‘He’s a bloody Peeping Tom,’ the bare-arsed wonder yelled. |
2. of a person, insignificant, second-rate.
I’m a Jack, All Right 15: No wonder you’re still a bare-arsed A.B. with that low intelligence. |
3. (con. 1970s) (Aus.) in fig. use, undiluted, full-strength.
Zero at the Bone [ebook] Not much appeared to have changed since the days when Swann and Marion had gone out to see bands in the era of bare-arsed rock’n’roll. |