Definition of "outen" []

• To put out; extinguish. (verb)
• Out; out of; out from. (preposition)
• Being from without; strange; foreign; fremd; peculiar. (adjective)

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• "But she took no notice at all; nor could I get so much as a single word outen her."
• "P66 has "outen" (nothing) in this verse while P75 has "oute hen" (not one thing), which is simply a more emphatic form of "outen.""
• "` An 'may yeh be damned,' sez he to her, an 'then to me, ` Jim, yeh — yeh git outen them good duds o' yourn; I want a right peart slice o 'thet forty acre ploughed 'fore dinner.'"