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Outen vs Outer - What's the difference?

outen | outer |

As adjectives the difference between outen and outer

is that outen is being from without; strange; foreign; fremd; peculiar while outer is outside; external.

As a preposition outen

is out; out of; out from.

As a verb outen

is to put out; extinguish.

As a noun outer is

an outer part.

outen

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) outen, uten, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted. }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, dialectal) Being from without; strange; foreign; fremd; peculiar.
    • an outen man
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To put out; extinguish.
    • outen the light
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    outer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Comparative of out by analogy with inner.

    Adjective

  • Outside; external.
  • Farther from the centre of the inside.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
    Antonyms
    * inner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outer part.
  • *
  • The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bullseye.
  • A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
  • (wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box.
    • We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.

    Derived terms

    * outer space * outerness

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who admits to something publicly.
  • Someone who outs another.
  • One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
  • An ouster; dispossession.

    • Anagrams

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