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out⋅land⋅ish

  [out-lan-dish]
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–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.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE ūtlendisc. See outland, -ish 1

Related forms:
out⋅land⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
out⋅land⋅ish⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. peculiar, queer, eccentric, curious. 3. backwoods, isolated.
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out·land·ish   (out-lān'dĭsh)   
adj.  
  1. Conspicuously unconventional; bizarre. See Synonyms at strange.
  2. Strikingly unfamiliar.
  3. Located far from civilized areas.
  4. Archaic Of foreign origin; not native.
out·land'ish·ly adv., out·land'ish·ness n.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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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