Outen

From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan ("from outside, on the outside, without"), from Proto-Germanic *ūtô, *ūtą ("outside"), from Proto-Indo-European *ūd- ("up, over"). Cognate with Middle Low German ūten ("out, forth"), German außen ("outside, out"), Swedish utan ("without, free from"). More at out.

Full definition of outen

Preposition

1. (archaic or dialectal) Out; out of; out from.
• 1914 , Edgar Rice Burrows , The Mucker Chapter , so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.

Adjective

1. (chiefly dialectal) Being from without; strange; foreign; fremd; peculiar.an outen man

Derived terms

• outener

From out + -en.

Verb

1. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To put out; extinguish.outen the light----