Talk:Buck naked

Looking for trouble

In the American South, "buck naked" or "butt naked" means not in your house, out looking for trouble on Saturday night and wearing no clothes I live in Georgia. I've heard "buck naked" and "butt naked" plenty of times, but never the above definiton. PrometheusX303 03:57, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I live in southern Kentucky, and I've never heard it this way. "Buck/butt naked" means completely naked. I think the person who wrote that is confusing it to the term "buck wild". I'm going to change it. Might make a stub article for "buck wild" if similar doesn't exist. ~ Wakanda's Black Panther! (contribs) 19:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Corruption of Expression

It's clear as crystal that the term is "buck naked" as in as naked as a buck deer, further reinforced in its usage by the fact that a buck-skin is similar to tanned human skin. The term "butt naked" is just another example of mis-pronounciation that gets ingrained in people's speech. Just like "coming down the pipe" has garnered common usage for those that don't understand that the term "pike" is the proper word. Such corruptions are common in that a mis-heard expression gains acceptance as the erroneous phrase is also reasonably non-sensical when it is heard by others, and propagated. [Nov 2006]

Expand, merge or redirect

This page is a mere dictionary definition (something which Wikipedia is not). It explains the meanings and probable origins of a phrase adn has some examples of notable usages of the term. I can't find any encyclopedic content on this page. The definitions belong over in Wiktionary where folks with the right skills, interests and lexical tools can more easily sort out the meanings and origins.

Options to fix the page here include:

1. Expand the page with encyclopedic content - that is, content that goes well beyond the merely lexical.
2. Redirect the page to a more general page on the appropriate sub-genre of slang.
3. Replace the current contents with a soft-redirect to Wiktionary (usually done using the {{wi}} template).

Pending a better answer, I'm implemented option 3 for now. Rossami (talk) 04:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary?

My understanding of the Wikipedia is that it is a content encyclopaedia project which is built for people to collaborate on the meaning and history of a term. Wiktionary is to explain the meaning and history of a word.

As the person who has inhabited the "name" Buck Naked for nearly 20 years as an underground DJ in my home town of Sydney Australia - I am keen to know whether people believe that this is better recorded as a word or a term.

I believe Buck Naked is a term not a word. It was used by David Byrne, Seinfeld and in a number of other historical places including my own.

In my opinion a dictionary is used when a word comes into daily use - and while certainly some people use it in common use, I am not conceited enough to dream that my alter ego's name is in daily use, and therefore worthy of being in a dictionary I am realistic to know that is much more an encyclopaedic description - but I am very keen to discuss this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ Buck Naked (talk • contribs) 12:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

You appear to be making a distinction without a difference. wikt:term (definition 2) = wikt:word. Wikipedia is about things - either physical or conceptual. Wiktionary is about words. A Wikipedia article about a notable person who uses the word as a pseudonym would be appropriate. A regurgitation of the dictionary definition, etymology, etc, however, is not sufficient to support an encyclopedia article. Rossami (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

There was also a radio personality Buck Naked on WKSL.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)