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ˌoutˈdoors, adv. (n.)
[out prep.]
A. adv. Out of doors; in the open air.
1817S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 113 The chimney is sure to be placed out doors. 1846in Worcester. 1882Stevenson Fam. Studies Men & Bks. (1901) 73 Wisdom keeps school outdoors. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie xiii. 404 What you learn there [sc. at school] doesn't amount to a hill of beans compared with what you can find out for yourself outdoors. 1937C. Marston Bible comes Alive vi. 149 At Jericho..the people mostly lived outdoors.
b. Phr. all outdoors (U.S. colloq.), the whole world; everybody; freq. in comparisons alluding to the immensity of the areas out of doors.
[1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 111 Stuffy feller (that bear) as ever you see'd; big as all out o' doors.] 1830S. Smith Life & Writings J. Downing (1833) 64, I had a letter from him..as long as all out doors. 1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N. York II. xxii. 60 A great strapping woman as tall as all out-doors. 1846Quincy (Illinois) Whig 17 Feb. 2/2, I was going to speak of the President's message—Jimmy K's statement to all out-doors, and some parts of Ashey. 1861Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. i. 169 Ourn's the fust thru-by-daylight train with all ou' doors for deepot. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. 213 The hot sun of July falling through the shadeless and even curtainless windows open to all outdoors. 1948Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. 6/3 Its spirit is literally ‘as big as all out-doors’.
B. n. = out-of-door, -doors n. phr. Freq. in phr. the great outdoors, the ‘great open spaces’ (see open a. 8 a).
1857N. P. Willis Convalescent (1859) 121 The ‘down party’..were enjoying the river from the uncommon outdoors of Mr. Grinnell's broad prairies. 1932Ann. Reg. 1931 ii. 47 The ‘great outdoors’ was represented most elaborately in ‘Cimarron’, which starred Richard Dix in a fine dramatisation of the opening up of Oklahoma, and ‘Trader Horn’, a picture of wild life in Africa. 1940[see cliff-hanger]. 1949Skyline Trail Mar. 14/2 Trail Hikers, like all lovers of the outdoors, are by nature animal lovers as well. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 44 During the 30 years (good heavens, is it that long?) that I have been writing about the outdoors, changes have been great. 1968Listener 30 May 713/1 The Victorians worked hard to get the great outdoors inside a theatre. 1977Times 23 Apr. 12/7 Ideal for anyone who wants that taste of the great outdoors without straying too far from..civilization.
Hence outˈdoorsman, one who likes outdoor activities; outˈdoorsy a., associated with or characteristic of the outdoors; fond of an outdoor life; hence outˈdoorsiness.
1952Berg & Samuels Lady on Beach vi. 184 In my attempts to be a truly outdoorsy woman at all times I had a ludicrous crab-hunting misadventure of my own. 1958Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 July 8/6 He's kept busy coping with appetites of outdoorsmen. 1960I. Wallach Absence of Cello (1961) 105 It was hardly an outdoorsy vacation. 1961Guardian 4 Mar. 4/7 These new-style out⁓doorsmen. 1967E. B. Nickerson Kayaks to Arctic xii. 112, I..find no personal satisfaction in..showing an obnoxious out-doorsiness in a dozen..ways. 1973J. Gores Final Notice (1974) vii. 43 Larry Ballard, good⁓looking in a wind blown, outdoorsy way. 1974Publishers Weekly 18 Mar. 42/1 A poor boy who..became a prodigious outdoorsman and mountain climber. 1976Ibid. 11 Oct. 91/2 His interviews read like scenes out of a good outdoorsy novel. 1976Parliamentarian July p. viii, The hazards of translation in the European Parliament have given Mr Michael Stewart an undeserved reputation as an outdoorsman of unusual dexterity. He had spoken of his job as being like ‘paddling a canoe shooting rapids’, but the German interpreter thought he had said ‘..shooting rabbits’ and translated accordingly. Mr Stewart was promptly wished good hunting by two German Members. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 18 Sept. 1/4 They're the sort of out-doorsy fellows we usually associate with television shows about tagging grizzlies and spying on beavers in Wyoming. |