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outlandish, a.|aʊtˈlændɪʃ|
[In OE. útlęndisc, f. útland, outland 1: see -ish.]
1. a. Of or belonging to a foreign country; foreign, alien; not native or indigenous. Now arch.
c1000ælfric Lev. xxiv. 22 Si he landes man, si he utlendisc. c1070O.E. Chron. an. 1052 (MS. C) Hiᵹ noldon þæt utlendiscum þeodum wære þes eard. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11127 Outlandische kynges þat of hym held. c1374Chaucer Former Age 22 No Marchaunt yit ne fette owt-landissh ware. c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 4 He supposid that God toke vengeawnce of hym for his synnys a-mongis owte-landisshe peple. 1535Coverdale 1 Kings xi. 1 But kynge Salomon loued many outlandish wemen. 1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes v. (Arb.) 37 Cages, in which are all the strangest out-landish Birds. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 364 The outlandish Angelica rootes are very good chewed in the mouth. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 125 Y⊇ mouldings..are of a sweete outlandish wood. 1861Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. I. 482 Of all our great poets he [Spenser] is the one whose natural tastes were most opposed to such outlandish innovations upon..his native tongue.
b. absol. Foreign (language).
a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm., Holy Ghost (1661) 467 Now they can speak nothing but outlandish. 1752Foote Taste ii. i, He has got a black wig on, and speaks outlandish.
†c. outlandish man (sometimes written as one word), a foreigner. Obs.
1505Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 391 Annye oute landish man or enny of the enhabitantes. a1661Fuller Worthies iv. (1662) 12 Two eminent Out⁓landishmen. 1711Addison Spect. No. 46 ⁋4 He did not like the Name of the outlandish Man with the golden Clock in his Stockings. [1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. ix. 327 To rivet the yoke of outlandish men about their necks.]
2. Foreign-looking, of foreign fashion; unfamiliar, strange; hence, odd, bizarre, uncouth. Also, immoderate, exceeding proper limits. (Partly arising from sense 3.)
1596Babington Profit. Exp. 166 We haue..trafiqued with an outlandish rouer called the deuill. 1628Prynne Love-lockes 1 Sundry Antique, Horred and Out-landish shapes. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iv. x, A young woman..who was drest in one of your outlandish garments. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 72 They were dressed in a quaint out⁓landish fashion. 1885E. Garrett (Mrs. Mayo) At any Cost ii. 34 You don't mean to tell me that those outlandish old things are still in actual use? 1955Times 6 June 7/4 One or two [people]..will shatter the monotonous efficiency of the [refreshment drinks] machine with some outlandish demand for a highly individual brew. 1977Time 10 Jan. 46/1 The outlandish cost of armaments—$25 million for an F-15 today, v. $4 million for a Phantom jet in 1970—along with the rising prices of other imports, pushed the inflation rate into the stratosphere.
3. Out-of-the-way, remote; far removed from civilization (now usually in a derogatory sense).
1792J. Byng Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 53 So in an outlandish place I must creep to bed and pray for summer. 1842Dickens Let. 16 Apr. (1974) III. 202 The inns in these outlandish corners of the world would astonish you by their goodness. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. v, He resolved to settle in some outlandish part. 1881Tylor Anthrop. iv. 118 When outlandish people, such as Laplanders, have been brought to be exhibited in our great cities. 1887T. Hardy Woodlanders I. viii. 151, I get dreadfully nervous sometimes, living in such an outlandish place.
4. Of or pertaining to the Outlanders or Uitlanders of South Africa.
1896Daily News 4 Jan. 4/6 Protecting the independence of the country against being upset by an outlandish vote.
Hence † outˈlandisher, a foreigner. outˈlandishlike a. and adv. outˈlandishly adv., in an outlandish, foreign, or strange manner; strangely, oddly, uncouthly. outˈlandishness, the quality of being outlandish.
1593Nashe Lenten Stuffe in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park) VI. 149 For ten weeks together this rabble rout of *outlandishers are billetted with her.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 156 Hard composition and crooked framing of his wordes and sentences, as a man would say, English talke placed and framed *outlandish like. a1577Gascoigne Deuice Masque Poems 1869 I. 78 And why I goe outlandishe lyke, yet being Englishe borne.
1882in Chicago Advance 21 Sept., They would be seized with some uncontrollable spirit to act *out⁓landishly. 1889R. Ashe Two Kings Uganda (1890) 216 Two outlandishly dressed white men, who kept their fire on a large board which they ate off.
1611Cotgr., Peregrinité, strangenesse, *outlandishnesse, forrainenesse. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xi. (1859) 235 The outlandishness of the fashion was not offensive. |