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单词 out and out
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out and outadv.adj.n.

Brit. /ˌaʊt(ə)n(d)ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˈaʊdənˈaʊt/, /ˈaʊtnˈaʊt/
Forms: see out adv., int., and prep. and and conj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: out adv., int., and prep., and conj.1
Etymology: < out adv., int., and prep. (compare sense 6b s.v.) + and conj.1 + out adv., int., and prep.
A. adv.
Thoroughly, completely, entirely; downright.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through
to the boneOE
through and throughc1225
out and outc1300
from top to tail1303
out and inc1390
(from) head to heel (also heels)c1400
(from) head to foot (also feet)c1425
from top to (into, unto) toec1425
to the skin1526
to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530
from first to last1536
up and down1542
whole out1562
to the pith1587
to the back1594
from A to (also until) Z1612
from clew to earing1627
from top to bottom1666
back and edge1673
all hollow1762
(all) to pieces1788
from A to Za1821
to one's (also the) fingertips1825
to one's fingernails1851
from tip to toe1853
down to the ground1859
to the backbone1864
right the way1867
pur sang1893
from the ground up1895
in and out1895
from soda (card) to hock1902
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly
all outc1300
out and outc1300
at all devicec1385
to devicec1385
right out?1543
up to the chin1546
up to the eyes1607
upsy Friese1609
up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627
all hollow1762
(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822
all ends up1850
fair and square1870
right spang1884
to the wide1895
a (also one) hundred per cent1911
c1300 St. Thomas Apostle (Laud) 401 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 388 He schal is louerdes wrathþe habben out and out.
?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 828 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 304 (MED) Tho hevede kyng Knout Al this lond out and out.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 739 For out and out he is þe worthieste.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 264 Oute and oute, vbi halely.
c1500 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Arch. & Provinc. Words (1852) 593 She was wyckyd oute and oute.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. xxxii. 907 b There was such a masse of gold brought, as would buy all the Romanes out and out.
1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman v. 85 He can throw out and out, and still play on.
1762 G. G. Beekman Let. 20 Apr. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 409 I have agread with James Jancey and Walter Franklin to Insure Two Hundred pounds for Captain Snell at sixty per Cent out and out.
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 14 If I chose to sell it out and out, as the phrase is, I might certainly get £500 for it.
1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family II. xv She is..the cleverest woman I know, out and out.
1908 E. M. Forster Room with View x. 169 A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia.
1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 12/1 I was punished for being out and out rude which taught me how nasty and horrible rudeness is.
B. adj.
Usually in the form out-and-out. Complete, thoroughgoing, unqualified.
ΚΠ
1813 European Mag. & London Rev. Sept. 266 Huffey White was, in the slang language, what is termed a complete out-and-out man; no species of robbery came amiss to him.
1831 Edinb. Rev. 54 232 We are..not among the out-and-out admirers of the..political opinions of this school.
1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. ix. 163 He was an out-and-out avowed Republican.
1919 Outing Mar. 315/3 At the same time Andrew Jackson, an out-and-out Indian hater, became President of the United States.
1958 J. Barth End of Road xi. 209 Even the villain's role would have been all right, if you'd been an out-and-out villain.
1993 Tatler July 50/2 Faded grandeur and an out-of-the-way charm that some prefer to the out-and-out glitz of many Continental spas.
C. n.
An expansive or limitless open space. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite
infinity1377
infinite1587
infinitive1595
incomprehensibility1610
immensitya1631
infinitude1667
infinitum1682
unmeasured1812
endlessness1820
unconditioned1829
illimitable1884
out and out1890
boundless1909
1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. iv. 69 Nature as the object..is a boundless out and out of objects, a boundless out and out of externalities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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