Outen
adj, name, prep, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To put out; extinguish. dialectal, transitive
"I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going."
- 1 Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar. dialectal
"an outen man"
- 1 Out; out of; out from. archaic, dialectal
"[…] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted."
- 1 A surname from Dutch.
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More examples"[…] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted."
Etymology
From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā, from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.
From out + -en.
* As an English surname, topographic surname from Middle English ove (“above”) (from Old English ufan) + toun (“village, town”). Also a variant of Oulton, Oughton (itself from Old English Ofa + tun). * As a Dutch surname, variant spelling of Ooten.
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