outen
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-Germanic *ūtiniz, dative singular of Proto-Germanic *ūtô, *ūtą (“outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *ūd- (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.
Preposition
outen
- (archaic or dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
- 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
- so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.
Adjective
outen (comparative more outen, superlative most outen)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
outen (third-person singular simple present outens, present participle outening, simple past and past participle outened)
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To put out; extinguish.
- 2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017:
- 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.
- 2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274:
- When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
- (reflexive, colloquial) to out oneself (reveal oneself as having a certain secret)
- (LGBT) to out (reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual)
- Meine Schwester hat mich bei meinen Eltern geoutet!
- My sister outed me to my parents!
- (reflexive, LGBT) to come out of the closet, come out
- Wann hast du dich geoutet?
- When did you come out?
Conjugation
Adjective
outen
- inflection of out:
Further reading
- “outen” in Duden online
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