out-and-outer

English

Etymology

out and out +‎ -er

Noun

out-and-outer (plural out-and-outers)

1. (informal, dated) A first-rate fellow.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

     I am the Wackford Squeers as is therein named, sir. I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a ^[sic] out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.

   • 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:

     You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.