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Outer vs Klexter - What's the difference?

outer | klexter |

As nouns the difference between outer and klexter

is that outer is an outer part or outer can be someone who admits to something publicly while klexter is an outer guard at meetings of the ku klux klan.

As an adjective outer

is outside; external.

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

    * ----

    klexter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outer guard at meetings of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • * 1923 , Paulist Fathers, Catholic world: Volume 116
  • The Kleagles, and Klexters , and other nabobs should go with him.
  • * 2009 , Max Blue, Shorty Spooner (page 82)
  • Sitting in on a Klan meeting. Wouldn't that be something? Bankhead thought about the details. How would it work? “First, you got to get by the Klexter .”

    See also

    * Klarogo (inner guard)