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单词 way out
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way outadv.adj.n.

(In sense A. and B. 2)Brit. /ˈweɪ aʊt/, U.S. /ˈweɪ ˌaʊt/ (In sense B. 1 and C.)Brit. /ˌweɪ ˈaʊt/, U.S. /ˌweɪ ˈaʊt/
Forms: see way adv. and out adv., int., and prep.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: way adv., out adv.
Etymology: < way adv. + out adv.
Originally U.S.
A. adv.
colloquial. Far out; far away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > at or to a distance
ferrenc888
farc900
longOE
afarc1300
yond13..
on length1340
alonga1382
adreigha1393
on dreicha1400
afar offc1400
far-aboutc1450
alengtha1500
distantlya1500
remote1589
remotely1609
yferrea1643
out of his (her, its, etc.) way1650
adistance1807
away1818
way1833
way1833
way off1836
way out1840
1840 D. P. Thompson Green Mountain Boys 7/2 Now hear wolf way out there, howl, howl!
1868 G. A. Custer Let. 20 Feb. in E. Custer Following Guidon (1890) 53 They had braved the perils..in order to bring us, 'way out here, news from our loved ones.
1882 Congress. Rec. 9 Mar. 1758/1 Instead of that they go way out to Peoria, Illinois.
1933 L. I. Wilder Farmer Boy xvi. 119 This country..goes 'way out beyond Kansas..down to the Pacific Ocean.
1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax xi. 102 After a..journey by 'bus, Clarissa alighted way out on the North Circular Road.
1992 Grain Spring 217 He makes a wide banking turn way out east over Paulson's summerfallow and comes in low towards us.
2002 Geist Summer 15/1 We were off, running, bounding up the stairs way out in front of everybody.
B. adj.
1. slang. Far removed from reality or from convention; unconventional, eccentric; progressive, avant-garde; extreme. Usually hyphenated in attributive use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour
irregular1395
unformalc1449
informalc1475
disordered1561
monstrous1568
odd1577
irregulate1579
exorbitant1613
free-spirited1613
exorbitating1632
inconformable1633
extravagant1650
inconform1659
eccentric1685
unconformable1702
outrageous1778
unconventional1840
erratic1841
kinky1844
Bohemian1846
radical1869
Bohemic1874
nonconforming1899
hard case1904
jazz1917
offbeat1922
deviant1935
deviate1945
oddball1945
left field1951
way out1955
boho1958
non-conformant1960
sideways1969
1955 J. Blake Let. 8 Aug. in Joint (1971) 99 His big-city ways had become too way-out for my peasant simplicity.
1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music xix. 164 I turn on [sc. smoke marijuana] a little and I get way out.
1964 J. Dunbar in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 179 One thing I like about Cambridge, people don't try to be too way out. At places like Oxford, or Reading, I've seen blokes going around barefoot and wearing ear-rings.
1972 J. Philips Vanishing Senator iii. iii. 162 Vardon thought up a way-out scheme to commit a murder.
1977 Time 21 Nov. 28/2 The people shunned way-out ideas and candidates, preferred plainspokenness to blarney.
2004 J. Porter Hip Chick's Guide Macrobiotics ii. 34 I hesitated to tell her how I felt, because it just seemed too way-out.
2. slang. Greatly mistaken.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective] > greatly
all wet1923
way out1959
1921 Express Gaz. Jrnl. Sept. 265/2 We can hope that if prosperity is a little delayed and the predicters were 'way out on their calculations, that they are not far wrong.]
1959 M. Summerton Small Wilderness viii. 112 You're way out, Puss. If anybody has got a perfect alibi..it's Cliff.
1965 New Statesman 7 May 721/3 I would not presume to argue with Edward Hyams on matters botanical, but he is way out on snakes.
1987 Rangelands Aug. 179/2 What's the idea of your silly plan, Grass production, you're way out, man.
2013 K. Clark Down & Outs iv. 33 ‘You're way out, honey,’ he told her. ‘My fate had already been mapped out for me when I lived in the Eastern Hemisphere’.
C. n.
A person who holds extreme or unconventional views.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society
beard1667
come-outer1840
pagan1841
Bohemian1843
Greenwich Villager1887
weirdie1894
outsider1907
white nigger1934
beardo1935
isolate1942
weirdo1955
beat1958
beatnik1958
boho1958
beatster1959
way out1959
hippie1966
rebetis1966
homeboy1967
peanut1968
Yippie1968
suedehead1970
Goth1986
grebo1987
hipster1989
1959 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 23 June 5/1 Ever since the ‘beats’ formed their own trade association, some of us have been currying their approval; sort of attempting to get ‘in’ with the ‘way outs’.
1970 Encycl. Sci. Suppl. (Grolier) 158 Two years ago we were considered way-outs. Nobody knew what conservation meant.
1993 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 28 July 5 a Today's whoomps and whoots were the way outs and groovies of the '60s and '70s.
2007 L. A. JohnTre Man with Womb xiv. 139 I recognize ‘way outs’ all of the time and usually just try to ignore them!

Derivatives

way-ˈoutness n. slang unconventionality.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour
fantasticnessc1550
irregularship1577
fantasticalness1581
inconformity1594
irregularity1598
unconformitya1600
excess1709
eccentricity1794
quizziness1798
unconventionality1854
unconventionalism1868
deviation1912
deviance1944
deviancy1954
way-outness1961
quirkiness1971
1961 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 15 Dec. 7/1 A significant and rather depressing commentary on the upside-downness and way outness of art in general.
1979 S. Smith Survivor xvii. 185 Young people of all degrees of ‘way-outness’.
2004 B. Watson Derek Bailey vi. 348 Bailey wanted every freedom that sixties art-lab wayoutness could grant a performer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

> as lemmas

way out
a. A means of passing from one place or point to another, esp. of entry or exit from somewhere, such as a door, a gate, an opening made through a crowd, etc. Now frequently in way in, way out. Cf. archway n., doorway n., gateway n.1With examples with a verb referring to the creation of a passage of this kind (e.g. quots. c1450, 1802, 1914) cf. sense A. 9c(b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through
wayOE
OE Exodus 283 Wegas syndon dryge, haswe herestræta, holm gerymed.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xv. 281 In þam portice, þurh þone ligeþ se weg to þæs eadigan Clementes cyrican ælcum þæra manna, þe þa cyrcan secan wile.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3244 On twel[ue] doles delt ist ðe se, xii. weiges ðer-in ben faiger and fre.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 36 (MED) Men seyn þat the wlcanes ben weyes of helle.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1324 (MED) Quare althire-thickest was þe thrange þurȝe þaim he rynnes, And makis a wai wyde enoȝe waynes to mete.
1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 19 With theyr weapons they made a way through the mids of the enimies for the Marques to escape.
1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 141 From thence they brought vs into another roome of like sort, and for like vse; & so from one to another, that (without a guide) it was impossible to find the way out.
1718 C. Molloy Coquet iii. 53 Why, Sir, I had no Business at all, only to, to, to—that is, I thought it had been the Way out.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. To force a passage, to oblige your enemy to retire..and thus open a way into the country which he had occupied.
1898 G. B. Shaw You never can Tell in Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant ii. (stage direct.) Near the parapet there lurks a way to the kitchen, masked by a little trellis porch.
1914 S. Low in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 261 To a Prussian statesman it seems more natural to ‘hack a way’ through the territory of an unoffending neighbour than it would be to public men elsewhere.
1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. §309 What is your aim in philosophy?—To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) i. 14 The soldier on the door of the Director's antechamber cleared a way through the crowd.
2012 Church Times 21 Sept. 36/3 Have A-boards on the pavement outside that indicate the way in.
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