out-and-outer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From out and out + -er.
Noun
[edit]out-and-outer (plural out-and-outers)
- (informal, dated) A first-rate fellow.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
- I am the Wackford Squeers as is therein named, sir. I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a [sic] out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.
- 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:
- You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.