outen

• out'n

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtən/

From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā, from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”).

Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.

outen

1. (archaic or dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
   • 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:

     […] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel's Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

     And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’

outen (comparative more outen, superlative most outen)

1. (chiefly dialectal) Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

   an outen man

• outener

From out +‎ -en.

outen (third-person singular simple present outens, present participle outening, simple past and past participle outened)

1. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To put out; extinguish.
   • 2012, K. A. Kron, Shades of Gray, page 2017:

     I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going.

   • 2017, Beverly Lewis, The Missing, page 274:

     When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.

• toune

Borrowed from English out (verb).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.tə(n)/
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯tən

outen

1. (reflexive) to out oneself (reveal oneself as having a certain secret)
   • 2025, Bart Vanegeren, quoting Douglas Rushkoff, “'Het is hun wens, hun droom om te ontsnappen': hoe techmiljardairs zich voorbereiden op de apocalyps (en er zelfs naar uitkijken)”, in De Morgen‎^[1]:

     Ik veronderstel dat ik me in de ogen van de kapitalisten, de miljonairs en de techboys als een vijand had geout, […]

     I suppose I had outed myself as an enemy in the eyes of the capitalists, millionaires, and tech bros, […]

2. (reflexive, LGBTQ) to come out of the closet, come out

Borrowed from English out (verb).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʔaʊ̯tn̩]

• Audio:

  (file)

outen (weak, third-person singular present outet, past tense outete, past participle geoutet, auxiliary haben)

1. (reflexive, colloquial) to out oneself (reveal oneself as having a certain secret)
   • 2023 January 4, Gabriele Lesser, “Justiz in Polen: Plädoyer für die Todesstrafe”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Der polnische Regierungschef Mateusz Morawiecki outet sich als Fan der Todesstrafe. Die Opposition reagiert empört, aber ihre Argumente sind dünn.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (LGBTQ) to out (reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual)

   Meine Schwester hat mich bei meinen Eltern geoutet!

   My sister outed me to my parents!

3. (reflexive, LGBTQ) to come out of the closet, come out

   Wann hast du dich geoutet?

   When did you come out?

• “outen” in Duden online
• “outen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache