Outskip vs Outslip - What's the difference?
outskip | outslip |
To avoid by flight or fleeing; escape.
*1816 , Ben Jonson, William Gifford, The works of Ben Jonson :
*1866 , Gerald Massey, Shakspeare's sonnets never before interpreted :
*1999 , Henry James, Complete stories :
To surpass in skipping; surpass in skipping stones.
*2008 , Brenda Cooper, The Silver Ship and the Sea :
(obsolete) Something that has slipped out; a mistake, a slip.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.8:
*:I often hazard upon certaine outslips of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies, whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […].
As verbs the difference between outskip and outslip
is that outskip is to avoid by flight or fleeing; escape while outslip is {{cx|obsolete|transitive|lang=en}} To escape, to slip away from.As a noun outslip is
{{cx|obsolete}} Something that has slipped out; a mistake, a slip.outskip
English
Verb
(outskipp)- Thou lost thyself, child Drusus, when thou thoughtst Thou couldst outskip my vengeance; or outstand The power I had to crush thee into air.
- The right novice of pregnant and aspiring conceit will not outskip any precious gem of invention, or any beautiful flower of elocution that may richly adorn or gallantly bedeck the trim garland of his budding style.
- He pretends to be surprised at nothing, and to possess in perfection—poor, pitiable old fop—the art nil admirari ; but repeatedly, I know, I have clear outskipped his fancy.
- We had stopped throwing stones in view of anyone except ourselves years ago, after we saw the looks on the adults' faces when we outskipped them.