outen meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

outen

prep

/ˈaʊtən/

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.

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Archaic, Dialectal Out; out of; out from.

[…] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

outen

adj

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.

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Dialectal Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

an outen man

Derived terms: outener

outen

verb

Etymology From out + -en.

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Dialectal To put out; extinguish.

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.2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017:
When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274: