English Explanatory Dictionary

full monty

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Everything; the whole package.
  2. Nudity.
adj
  1. Nude.

Word forms

full monty full monties

Etymology

Unknown. First appeared in print in 1980s, but probably existed before that. The most common theory for its origin is that a purchase (especially that of a full three-piece suit) from Montague Maurice Burton (1885–1952), founder of Burton Menswear, was known as a "full Monty". According to the OED, this etymology is "perhaps the most plausible". The nudity definition comes via the movie The Full Monty, in which it is used as a euphemism for removing all one's clothes when stripping.

Synonyms

all the marbles bag and baggage everytang everything but the galley stove everything but the kitchen sink everything under the sun full monty hook line and sinker kit and caboodle lock stock and barrel the whole bang shoot the whole nine yards the works whole ball of wax whole hog whole enchilada whole kit and caboodle whole package whole shebang whole shitting match whole shooting match whole smash
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on F Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary