out-and-outer

English

Etymology

out and out +‎ -er

Noun

out-and-outer (plural out-and-outers)

  1. (informal, dated) A first-rate fellow.
    • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
      I am the Wackford Squeers as is therein named, sir. I am the man as is guaranteed, by unimpeachable references, to be a [sic] out-and-outer in morals and uprightness of principle.
    • 1956, Frank Clune, Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers, page 149:
      You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you.
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