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out⋅land⋅ish
[out-lan-dish]
–adjective
| 1. | freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions. |
| 2. | having a foreign appearance. |
| 3. | remote from civilized areas; out-of the-way: an outlandish settlement. |
| 4. | Archaic. foreign; alien. |
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out·land·ish (out-lān'dĭsh) adj.
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Outlandish
Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. ?tlendisc foreign. See Out, Land, and -ish.]1. Foreign; not native. Him did outlandish women cause to sin. --Neh. xiii. 26. Its barley water and its outlandish wines. --G. W. Cable. 2. Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. --Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.
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outlandish
O.E. utlendisc "of a foreign country," from utland "foreign land," lit. "outland" (see out + land). Sense of "unfamiliar, strange, odd, bizarre" (such as the customs of foreigners may seem to natives) is attested from 1596. Outlander in S.African Eng. had a specific sense of "not of Boer birth" (1892) and was a loan-transl. of S.African Du. uitlander.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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