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Vinony

outer

adjective

  1. near the surface
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtə/ / /ˈaʊtɚ/ / [ˈaʊɾɚ]

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-West Germanic *ūt Old English ūt ▲ Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *-ai Proto-Germanic *ūtai Proto-West Germanic *ūtē Old English ūte Middle English oute English out (adjective) English -er English outer From out (adjective) + -er (“comparative suffix”).

  1. comparative form of out (“(more) open about one's sexuality, etc”): more out

    “And 'I like to wear a silly hat; I get camper by the hour. I'm Will Young and I'm gay. Did you know I was gay? I hid it for a while. But now I'm out, I'm outer than you would believe'.[…]”

    “[…] outer-than-out literary lions like Edmund White and David Ehrenstein would later note, this final proof that the[…]”

noun

Etymology: out (verb) + -er (“agent suffix”)

  1. Someone who admits to something publicly.
  2. Someone who outs another.

    “From the early 90s, these were some of the fiercest debates raging in the gay press and in gay and straight bars worldwide as blabbermouths blabbed, sometimes just for the sheer hell of it, and gay celebrities ran for cover or bit the bullet and pipped the outers to the post.”

  3. One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
  4. An ouster; dispossession.
  5. One who supports leaving the European Union.

    “The 51.4 per cent to 48.6 per cent victory of the "outers" broke the back of the Labour government.”

    “Meanwhile, outers are disporting themselves on TV in luminous green ties, hand-woven by first years at the Dronefield Academy for the Sartorially Challenged.”