outa
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 4
- Words With Friends
- 5
- Letters
- 4
Definition of outa
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(South-Africa)An old black man.
“As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?””
“Secondly, there is an old black man, the Outa, who stumbles in from the dark to die beside their fire.”
“The reference is to a cheerful little ditty, in which an old black man, an ‘outa’, takes the long road to Mebosspruit, playing his tin guitar along the way.”
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noun
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(South-Africa)An old black man.
“As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?””
“Secondly, there is an old black man, the Outa, who stumbles in from the dark to die beside their fire.”
“The reference is to a cheerful little ditty, in which an old black man, an ‘outa’, takes the long road to Mebosspruit, playing his tin guitar along the way.”
prep
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of outta.
“[…] and lo! here’s all humanity hep and weird wandering on the evening sidewalk amazing me outa my eyeballs[…]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Afrikaans outa.
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