† outshuten.
Obsolete.
1. A place where a road or stream runs into another, an exit, an outlet.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxv. 479 Farað nu to wega utscytum & swa hwylce swa ge gemetað laþiað to þam gyftum; wegas sind mislice manna dæda, utscytas þæra wega sind ateorunge woruldlicra weorca.
a1170 (?OE) Bounds (Sawyer 567) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Pt. 2 (2001) 211 Þæt adune be broce oð pyppel riðiges ut scyte.
2. Excess. In quot.: sexual excess. rare.
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c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1468 (MED) Ah wel ich wule þat þu hit wite; loþ me beoþ wiues utschute.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.OE- to have the cheek
- to have the cheek to do something
- to have the conscience
- to have the crappy end of the stick
- to have the defects of one's qualities
- to have the defects of one's virtues
- to have the dingbats
- to have the ear of a person
- to have the edge on
- to have the eminence of
- to have the etc end of the stick
- to have the face
- to have the face to do something
- to have the fairer
- to have the fairer of
- to have the field to oneself
- to have the foot of
- to have the forehand of
- to have the front
- to have the gallows in one's face
- to have the game by the throat
- to have the game in one's hands
- to have the gingerbread
- to have the good sense to
- to have the good sense to do something