what does being naked have to do with a jaybird? why not naked as a hairless cat?
2007-03-22 04:09:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
It seems to me that someone said baby jaybirds are especially featherless. Anyway, the "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Vol. II, H-O" by J.E. Lighter (Random House, New York, 1997) says: "naked as a jaybird, stark naked." It lists as a couple of citations: 1893 James "Mavrick" 27: He will have the humbug qualifications of cow-boy stripped from his poor worthless carcass so quickly that he would feel like a jay bird with his tail feathers gone. 1922 in DARE: I gwi' strip nakit ez a jaybu'd befo' 'e fedduh' grow!
2007-03-22 05:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, all I have to say if that being a native Kansan, I was born there which makes me a Jayhawk, or Jayhawker, if you will. There, the term is actually used more often than I've ever heard it anywhere. Maybe it has more to do with just being a slang for being a naked Jayhawker! Naked Jaybird does sound better! Anyway, I don't really know what naked has to do with a jaybird, but I was often called a naked jaybird when I was a kid straight out of the bathtub... running around, and dropping my towel.
2007-03-22 15:59:21 · answer #2 · answered by lisalikes70scheese 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hairless cats are ugly.
2007-03-22 11:13:25 · answer #3 · answered by WangDangSweetPoontang 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hairless cat's aren't real animals.
2007-03-22 12:32:53 · answer #4 · answered by Joe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋