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outen¹

  • /ˈaʊtən/

Rhymes with -aʊtən

Where it comes from

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.

preposition out'n

  1. 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.

adjective more outen · most outen · out'n

  1. dialectal Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar. an outen man

outen²

  • /ˈaʊtən/

Rhymes with -aʊtən

verb outens · outening · outened · out'n

  1. dialectal, transitive 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.

Outen³

Where it comes from

* 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.

proper noun Outens

  1. A surname from Dutch.

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@misc{outen_2026,
  title = {outen},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/outen},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}