Dictionary entry

Outlandish

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Out‐land″ish (?), a. [AS. ūtlendisc foreign. See Out, Land, and -ish.] 1. Foreign; not native.

Him did outlandish women cause to sin. Neh. xiii. 26.

Its barley water and its outlandish wines. G. W. Cable.

2. Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.

Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne.

—Out‐land″ish‐ly, adv. — Out‐land″ish‐ness, n.