单词 | outskirter |
释义 | outskirtern. A person who or thing which stands or moves on the margins or outskirts. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > part near the edges or borders > one who is on the outskirts outskirter1831 fringer1938 1831 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 28 At least 100 more [rooks] were picked up by outskirters and other parties. 1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands 108 Well did we fare, too..for our outskirters, though they reserved their rifles for the appropriate game, were not so sparing with the shot-gun. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 223 To be even one of the outskirters of art, leaves a fine stamp on a man's countenance. 1988 T. E. Cook in E. J. Yanarella & L. Sigelman Polit. Mythol. & Pop. Fiction ii. 52 The two set out at moonlight, joined by a small band ranging from other outskirters to Bigwig, a tough member of the Chief Rabbit's inner clique. 2000 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. a17 But the outskirters, who by this time were poorer than poor began to scream and threaten the end of the end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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