way outadv.adj.n.

(In sense A. and B. 2)Brit.

/ˈweɪ aʊt/, U.S.

/ˈweɪ ˌaʊt/ (In sense B. 1 and C.)Brit.

/ˌweɪ ˈaʊt/, U.S.

/ˌweɪ ˈaʊt/

Forms: see way adv. and out adv., int., and prep.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: way adv., out adv.

Etymology: < way adv. + out adv.

Originally U.S.

A. adv.

colloquial. Far out; far away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance

ferrenc888

farc900

longOE

afarc1300

yond13..

on length1340

alonga1382

adreigha1393

on dreicha1400

afar offc1400

far-aboutc1450

alengtha1500

distantlya1500

remote1589

remotely1609

yferrea1643

out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650

adistance1807

away1818

way1833

way off1836

way out1840

1840 D. P. Thompson Green Mountain Boys 7/2 Now hear wolf way out there, howl, howl!

1868 G. A. Custer Let. 20 Feb. in E. Custer Following Guidon (1890) 53 They had braved the perils..in order to bring us, 'way out here, news from our loved ones.

1882 Congress. Rec. 9 Mar. 1758/1 Instead of that they go way out to Peoria, Illinois.

1933 L. I. Wilder Farmer Boy xvi. 119 This country..goes 'way out beyond Kansas..down to the Pacific Ocean.

1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax xi. 102 After a..journey by 'bus, Clarissa alighted way out on the North Circular Road.

1992 Grain Spring 217 He makes a wide banking turn way out east over Paulson's summerfallow and comes in low towards us.

2002 Geist Summer 15/1 We were off, running, bounding up the stairs way out in front of everybody.

B. adj.

1. slang. Far removed from reality or from convention; unconventional, eccentric; progressive, avant-garde; extreme. Usually hyphenated in attributive use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour

irregular1395

unformalc1449

informalc1475

disordered1561

monstrous1568

odd1577

irregulate1579

exorbitant1613

free-spirited1613

exorbitating1632

inconformable1633

extravagant1650

inconform1659

eccentric1685

unconformable1702

outrageous1778

unconventional1840

erratic1841

kinky1844

Bohemian1846

radical1869

Bohemic1874

nonconforming1899

hard case1904

jazz1917

offbeat1922

deviant1935

deviate1945

oddball1945

left field1951

way out1955

boho1958

non-conformant1960

sideways1969

1955 J. Blake Let. 8 Aug. in Joint (1971) 99 His big-city ways had become too way-out for my peasant simplicity.

1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music xix. 164 I turn on [sc. smoke marijuana] a little and I get way out.

1964 J. Dunbar in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 179 One thing I like about Cambridge, people don't try to be too way out. At places like Oxford, or Reading, I've seen blokes going around barefoot and wearing ear-rings.

1972 J. Philips Vanishing Senator iii. iii. 162 Vardon thought up a way-out scheme to commit a murder.

1977 Time 21 Nov. 28/2 The people shunned way-out ideas and candidates, preferred plainspokenness to blarney.

2004 J. Porter Hip Chick's Guide Macrobiotics ii. 34 I hesitated to tell her how I felt, because it just seemed too way-out.

2. slang. Greatly mistaken.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] > greatly

all wet1923

way out1959

1921 Express Gaz. Jrnl. Sept. 265/2 We can hope that if prosperity is a little delayed and the predicters were 'way out on their calculations, that they are not far wrong.]

1959 M. Summerton Small Wilderness viii. 112 You're way out, Puss. If anybody has got a perfect alibi..it's Cliff.

1965 New Statesman 7 May 721/3 I would not presume to argue with Edward Hyams on matters botanical, but he is way out on snakes.

1987 Rangelands Aug. 179/2 What's the idea of your silly plan, Grass production, you're way out, man.

2013 K. Clark Down & Outs iv. 33 ‘You're way out, honey,’ he told her. ‘My fate had already been mapped out for me when I lived in the Eastern Hemisphere’.

C. n.

A person who holds extreme or unconventional views.

ΘΚΠ

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

1959 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 23 June 5/1 Ever since the ‘beats’ formed their own trade association, some of us have been currying their approval; sort of attempting to get ‘in’ with the ‘way outs’.

1970 Encycl. Sci. Suppl. (Grolier) 158 Two years ago we were considered way-outs. Nobody knew what conservation meant.

1993 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 28 July 5 a Today's whoomps and whoots were the way outs and groovies of the '60s and '70s.

2007 L. A. JohnTre Man with Womb xiv. 139 I recognize ‘way outs’ all of the time and usually just try to ignore them!

Derivatives

way-ˈoutness n. slang unconventionality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour

fantasticnessc1550

irregularship1577

fantasticalness1581

inconformity1594

irregularity1598

unconformitya1600

excess1709

eccentricity1794

quizziness1798

unconventionality1854

unconventionalism1868

deviation1912

deviance1944

deviancy1954

way-outness1961

quirkiness1971

1961 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 15 Dec. 7/1 A significant and rather depressing commentary on the upside-downness and way outness of art in general.

1979 S. Smith Survivor xvii. 185 Young people of all degrees of ‘way-outness’.

2004 B. Watson Derek Bailey vi. 348 Bailey wanted every freedom that sixties art-lab wayoutness could grant a performer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

a. A means of passing from one place or point to another, esp. of entry or exit from somewhere, such as a door, a gate, an opening made through a crowd, etc. Now frequently in way in, way out. Cf. archway n., doorway n., gateway n.¹With examples with a verb referring to the creation of a passage of this kind (e.g. quots. c1450, 1802, 1914) cf. sense A. 9c(b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through

wayOE

OE Exodus 283 Wegas syndon dryge, haswe herestræta, holm gerymed.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xv. 281 In þam portice, þurh þone ligeþ se weg to þæs eadigan Clementes cyrican ælcum þæra manna, þe þa cyrcan secan wile.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3244 On twel[ue] doles delt ist ðe se, xii. weiges ðer-in ben faiger and fre.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 36 (MED) Men seyn þat the wlcanes ben weyes of helle.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1324 (MED) Quare althire-thickest was þe thrange þurȝe þaim he rynnes, And makis a wai wyde enoȝe waynes to mete.

1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 19 With theyr weapons they made a way through the mids of the enimies for the Marques to escape.

1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 141 From thence they brought vs into another roome of like sort, and for like vse; & so from one to another, that (without a guide) it was impossible to find the way out.

1718 C. Molloy Coquet iii. 53 Why, Sir, I had no Business at all, only to, to, to—that is, I thought it had been the Way out.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To force a passage, to oblige your enemy to retire..and thus open a way into the country which he had occupied.

1898 G. B. Shaw You never can Tell in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant ii. (stage direct.) Near the parapet there lurks a way to the kitchen, masked by a little trellis porch.

1914 S. Low in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 261 To a Prussian statesman it seems more natural to ‘hack a way’ through the territory of an unoffending neighbour than it would be to public men elsewhere.

1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. §309 What is your aim in philosophy?—To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) i. 14 The soldier on the door of the Director's antechamber cleared a way through the crowd.

2012 Church Times 21 Sept. 36/3 Have A-boards on the pavement outside that indicate the way in.

单词	way out
释义	way outadv.adj.n. (In sense A. and B. 2)Brit. /ˈweɪ aʊt/, U.S. /ˈweɪ ˌaʊt/ (In sense B. 1 and C.)Brit. /ˌweɪ ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˌweɪ ˈaʊt/ Forms: see way adv. and out adv., int., and prep. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: way adv., out adv. Etymology: < way adv. + out adv. Originally U.S. A. adv. colloquial. Far out; far away. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance ferrenc888 farc900 longOE afarc1300 yond13.. on length1340 alonga1382 adreigha1393 on dreicha1400 afar offc1400 far-aboutc1450 alengtha1500 distantlya1500 remote1589 remotely1609 yferrea1643 out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650 adistance1807 away1818 way1833 way1833 way off1836 way out1840 1840 D. P. Thompson Green Mountain Boys 7/2 Now hear wolf way out there, howl, howl! 1868 G. A. Custer Let. 20 Feb. in E. Custer Following Guidon (1890) 53 They had braved the perils..in order to bring us, 'way out here, news from our loved ones. 1882 Congress. Rec. 9 Mar. 1758/1 Instead of that they go way out to Peoria, Illinois. 1933 L. I. Wilder Farmer Boy xvi. 119 This country..goes 'way out beyond Kansas..down to the Pacific Ocean. 1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax xi. 102 After a..journey by 'bus, Clarissa alighted way out on the North Circular Road. 1992 Grain Spring 217 He makes a wide banking turn way out east over Paulson's summerfallow and comes in low towards us. 2002 Geist Summer 15/1 We were off, running, bounding up the stairs way out in front of everybody. B. adj. 1. slang. Far removed from reality or from convention; unconventional, eccentric; progressive, avant-garde; extreme. Usually hyphenated in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour irregular1395 unformalc1449 informalc1475 disordered1561 monstrous1568 odd1577 irregulate1579 exorbitant1613 free-spirited1613 exorbitating1632 inconformable1633 extravagant1650 inconform1659 eccentric1685 unconformable1702 outrageous1778 unconventional1840 erratic1841 kinky1844 Bohemian1846 radical1869 Bohemic1874 nonconforming1899 hard case1904 jazz1917 offbeat1922 deviant1935 deviate1945 oddball1945 left field1951 way out1955 boho1958 non-conformant1960 sideways1969 1955 J. Blake Let. 8 Aug. in Joint (1971) 99 His big-city ways had become too way-out for my peasant simplicity. 1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music xix. 164 I turn on [sc. smoke marijuana] a little and I get way out. 1964 J. Dunbar in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 179 One thing I like about Cambridge, people don't try to be too way out. At places like Oxford, or Reading, I've seen blokes going around barefoot and wearing ear-rings. 1972 J. Philips Vanishing Senator iii. iii. 162 Vardon thought up a way-out scheme to commit a murder. 1977 Time 21 Nov. 28/2 The people shunned way-out ideas and candidates, preferred plainspokenness to blarney. 2004 J. Porter Hip Chick's Guide Macrobiotics ii. 34 I hesitated to tell her how I felt, because it just seemed too way-out. 2. slang. Greatly mistaken. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] > greatly all wet1923 way out1959 1921 Express Gaz. Jrnl. Sept. 265/2 We can hope that if prosperity is a little delayed and the predicters were 'way out on their calculations, that they are not far wrong.] 1959 M. Summerton Small Wilderness viii. 112 You're way out, Puss. If anybody has got a perfect alibi..it's Cliff. 1965 New Statesman 7 May 721/3 I would not presume to argue with Edward Hyams on matters botanical, but he is way out on snakes. 1987 Rangelands Aug. 179/2 What's the idea of your silly plan, Grass production, you're way out, man. 2013 K. Clark Down & Outs iv. 33 ‘You're way out, honey,’ he told her. ‘My fate had already been mapped out for me when I lived in the Eastern Hemisphere’. C. n. A person who holds extreme or unconventional views. ΘΚΠ 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 1959 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 23 June 5/1 Ever since the ‘beats’ formed their own trade association, some of us have been currying their approval; sort of attempting to get ‘in’ with the ‘way outs’. 1970 Encycl. Sci. Suppl. (Grolier) 158 Two years ago we were considered way-outs. Nobody knew what conservation meant. 1993 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 28 July 5 a Today's whoomps and whoots were the way outs and groovies of the '60s and '70s. 2007 L. A. JohnTre Man with Womb xiv. 139 I recognize ‘way outs’ all of the time and usually just try to ignore them! Derivatives way-ˈoutness n. slang unconventionality. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour fantasticnessc1550 irregularship1577 fantasticalness1581 inconformity1594 irregularity1598 unconformitya1600 excess1709 eccentricity1794 quizziness1798 unconventionality1854 unconventionalism1868 deviation1912 deviance1944 deviancy1954 way-outness1961 quirkiness1971 1961 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 15 Dec. 7/1 A significant and rather depressing commentary on the upside-downness and way outness of art in general. 1979 S. Smith Survivor xvii. 185 Young people of all degrees of ‘way-outness’. 2004 B. Watson Derek Bailey vi. 348 Bailey wanted every freedom that sixties art-lab wayoutness could grant a performer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas way out a. A means of passing from one place or point to another, esp. of entry or exit from somewhere, such as a door, a gate, an opening made through a crowd, etc. Now frequently in way in, way out. Cf. archway n., doorway n., gateway n.¹With examples with a verb referring to the creation of a passage of this kind (e.g. quots. c1450, 1802, 1914) cf. sense A. 9c(b). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through wayOE OE Exodus 283 Wegas syndon dryge, haswe herestræta, holm gerymed. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xv. 281 In þam portice, þurh þone ligeþ se weg to þæs eadigan Clementes cyrican ælcum þæra manna, þe þa cyrcan secan wile. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3244 On twel[ue] doles delt ist ðe se, xii. weiges ðer-in ben faiger and fre. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 36 (MED) Men seyn þat the wlcanes ben weyes of helle. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1324 (MED) Quare althire-thickest was þe thrange þurȝe þaim he rynnes, And makis a wai wyde enoȝe waynes to mete. 1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 19 With theyr weapons they made a way through the mids of the enimies for the Marques to escape. 1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 141 From thence they brought vs into another roome of like sort, and for like vse; & so from one to another, that (without a guide) it was impossible to find the way out. 1718 C. Molloy Coquet iii. 53 Why, Sir, I had no Business at all, only to, to, to—that is, I thought it had been the Way out. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To force a passage, to oblige your enemy to retire..and thus open a way into the country which he had occupied. 1898 G. B. Shaw You never can Tell in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant ii. (stage direct.) Near the parapet there lurks a way to the kitchen, masked by a little trellis porch. 1914 S. Low in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 261 To a Prussian statesman it seems more natural to ‘hack a way’ through the territory of an unoffending neighbour than it would be to public men elsewhere. 1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. §309 What is your aim in philosophy?—To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) i. 14 The soldier on the door of the Director's antechamber cleared a way through the crowd. 2012 Church Times 21 Sept. 36/3 Have A-boards on the pavement outside that indicate the way in. extracted from wayn.¹int.¹ < adv.adj.n.1840 as lemmas
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way outadv.adj.n.

Derivatives

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