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单词 outsider
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outsidern.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈsʌɪdə/, U.S. /ˈˌaʊtˈˌsaɪdər/
Forms: see outside n. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: outside n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < outside n. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person who does not belong to a particular circle, community, profession, etc.; a person originating from elsewhere. Also: a person unconnected with a matter; a person lacking special knowledge of a subject.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > one outside a barrier or enclosure
outsider1800
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider
fremdc950
guestc950
althedyOE
allophyleOE
uncoutha1250
strangea1325
alienc1384
barbarc1384
barbarync1384
strangerc1385
barbaric1388
foreigna1399
outland?a1400
farandman14..
out-comelingc1400
foreigner1422
alienar1473
alienate1497
estrangec1503
new face?a1513
barbarianc1550
fremman1568
frenne1579
estranger1586
inmatea1600
outlier1606
outcomer1607
externc1610
exoteric1697
outner1721
outsider1800
unco1800
inconnu1807
outrigger1850
offcome1859
ringer1896
offcomer1898
shenzi1910
out-grouper1938
outworlder1948
1800 J. Austen Let. 20 Nov. (1995) 62 There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders.
1833 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 354 Those he cannot entertain, the outsiders, ‘without a home to cover them’.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House li. 492 He is only an outsider, and is not in the mysteries.
a1860 Lowell Jrnl. A large number of outsiders have gone to the free-soil convention at Buffalo.
1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 31 Outsiders, you know, often see most of the game.
1944 F. Brown in B. W. Aldiss Introd. SF (1964) 69 No one knew who the Outsiders were..or from what far galaxy they came.
1972 W. Samarin Tongues Men & Angels vi. 149 This jive is a private affair, a secret inner-circle code cooked up partly to mystify the outsiders.
1992 Economist 29 Feb. 16/1 Though many names on these syndicates did well in the early 1980s, they now talk of foul play and of insiders being favoured over outsiders.
2000 P. M. Sniderman et al. Outsider (2002) ii. 26 Is everyone who has come from outside Italy, just because they have come from outside it, regarded as equally an outsider?
b. A person positioned physically on the outside or fringe of a group or line; a person situated beyond a boundary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > [noun] > one positioned on outside of a group
outsider1857
outside1898
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > person failing to gain admission to 'ring'
outsider1902
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 116 Here come two of the bulldogs, bursting through the out-siders [of a football scrummage]; in they go, straight to the heart of the scrummage.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 84 One day, Phillips was ‘outsider’ on his chain. That is to say, he was working nearest the shaft in a gallery... West was outsider in the adjacent gallery.
1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 116/1 Outsider,..(racing), a person who fails to gain admission to the ‘ring’ from pecuniary or other causes.
1991 Football Action '91 41/3 The inside linebackers form a solid unit,..but the outsiders are thin on experience.
c. A person who is isolated from or not integrated into conventional society, either by choice or through some social or other constraint; a misfit. Also: spec. the archetypal artist or intellectual seen as a person isolated from the rest of society.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society
beard1667
come-outer1840
pagan1841
Bohemian1843
Greenwich Villager1887
weirdie1894
outsider1907
white nigger1934
beardo1935
isolate1942
weirdo1955
beat1958
beatnik1958
boho1958
beatster1959
way out1959
hippie1966
rebetis1966
homeboy1967
peanut1968
Yippie1968
suedehead1970
Goth1986
grebo1987
hipster1989
1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip x. 322 ‘I didn't think you ought to play [golf] with him,’ said Pip coolly. ‘He's an utter outsider.’
1946 S. Gilbert tr. A. Camus (title) The outsider.
1956 C. Wilson Outsider i. 14 Many great artists have none of the characteristics of the Outsider. Shakespeare, Dante, Keats were all apparently normal and socially well-adjusted.
1958 J. Raymond England's on Anvil! 40 Like Proust the Jew, Pope the Roman Catholic son of a linen-draper was an outsider.
1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush xiv. 201 I remember an odd fellow when I was in Nigeria. Bit of an outsider, really, but do anything with snakes.
1990 J. Masson Final Anal. (1991) vi. 118 I was a true outsider, and I suspect this trait appealed to Eissler. I had no fear of expressing myself.
2001 G. Falk Stigma ii. 41 Evidently, then, unreasonable people including the mentally ill are viewed..as outsiders who challenge the very basis on which American civilization rests.
2. Originally Horse Racing. A horse generally expected not to win or be placed in a particular race, and against which long odds are laid. Now also in extended use: a competitor, candidate, applicant, etc., considered unlikely to succeed.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > horse by performance
lightweight1773
sticker1779
maiden1807
favourite1813
mile-horse1829
outsider1836
heavyweight1857
stayer1862
stoner1862
rank outsider1869
pick1872
pot1874
timer1881
resurrectionist1883
short head1883
pea1888
cert1889
stiffa1890
wrong 'un1889
on the mark1890
place horse1890
top-weight1892
miler1894
also-ran1895
selection1901
loser1902
hotpot1904
roughie1908
co-favourite1922
readier1922
springer1922
fav1935
scratch1938
no-hoper1943
shoo-in1950
scorer1974
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > outsider
outsider1836
caravanner1838
rank outsider1869
stiff one1871
stiffa1890
roughie1908
no-hoper1943
1836 R. S. Surtees Let. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) IV. ix. 185 An unfortunate outsider, called Astracan, was handed up to him for disposal... He begged us to dismiss from our mind all the previous recommendations he had made of other horses.
1836 Spirit of Times 5 Mar. 20/1 The Brother to Maria, the Babel colt, and Taishteer, are a shade worse, owing, no doubt, to the money laid out upon Brother to Nell Gwynne. No change amongst the outsiders.
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone xxv It was evident he was still the favourite, and that all others were complete ‘outsiders’.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxviii. 273 As an outsider from an unknown stable may falsify all prognostications about a Derby favourite.
1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xxi. 315 He had no more hope of winning now; his one thought was that he would like to show Fay that he..was not a hopeless outsider at this queer game.
1973 J. Brooke King George III iii. 81 The future Queen Charlotte appeared at the end of the list almost as an afterthought, and very much an outsider in the matrimonial stakes.
1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 31/3 Vauxhall League side Woking are the outsiders at 5,000–1.
3. In plural. Criminals' slang. A pair of long nippers or pincers which can be inserted into a keyhole from the outside so as to grasp and turn the key on the inside. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > for turning a key
outsiders1846
oustiti1941
1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 18 July 391/4 Three of their terrible instruments, called outsiders, of different sizes, with which they worked their way into houses and rooms... They somewhat resemble a pair of long pincers with the end round and hollow, with sharp teeth, and are calculated to grasp firmly the end of the key towards the outside of the door, and turn it, when the door is easily and silently opened.
1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 15 Jan. 1/8 The burglary must have been well planned. Three of the doors..were opened by means of outsiders.
1909 F. H. Tillotson How to be Detective 94 Outsider, a pair of nippers to turn keys from the outside.
4. An outside jaunting car. Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with seats facing the side
jaunting-car1805
sidecar1845
outside car1849
outsider1900
1900 Westm. Gaz. 19 Jan. 10/2 If we are to judge by the figures set out by the Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Police in his latest report, the popularity of the ‘outsider’ is on the wane. In a single year the number of cars has been reduced by sixty-two.

Compounds

outsider art n. art produced by untrained artists (esp. social misfits) who are not part of the mainstream tradition.
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1972 R. Cardinal (title) Outsider art.
1988 Mod. Painters Autumn 33/2 Rego is..too sane to work at the obsessive space-filling that is typical of most outsider art.
2001 Independent 22 Mar. ii. 12/1 The concept of Outsider Art often carries with it a baggage of notions about the improving, transformative effect of artistic expression on individuals from beyond the pale of ‘normal’ life.
outsider artist n. a person who creates outsider art.
ΚΠ
1990 Artnews Apr. 38/4 Critics have always had a hard time pegging Zush—some regard him as an ‘outsider artist’... Others prefer to link him to..art-historical antecedents.
2001 N.Y. Times 2 May h26/2 The obsessive books and double-sided drawings by the great outsider artist Henry Darger will be displayed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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