starkers

Putin looks — how to put this nicely? — completely bonkers, or what the British call “starkers,” short for stark raving mad.

She turned up, stripped and pottered out starkers to the room full of pensioners, only to be informed that this was not a life-drawing session and politely requested to put her clothes back on.

“I’ll go starkers before I put that on,” said Ron stubbornly.

The men and women admiring the koi pond and photographing the rose collection and making polite chit-chat with neighbors on the next picnic blanket over — all of them, starkers as the day they were born.

You begin swiping through her sunshiny mementos — palm tree, cabana, palm tree, palm tree — when, suddenly, blammo: there’s your friend in her starkers.