adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Thorough; PRIME (q.v.); ‘far and away.’
[?]. Rawlinson MS., C. 36.
| The kyng was good alle aboute, | |
| And she was wyckyd OUTE AND OUTE, | |
| For she was of suche comforte, | |
| She lovyd mene ondir her lorde. |
1819. J. H. VAUX, Memoirs, ii. 193. OUT-AND-OUT, quite; completely; effectually.
1837. THACKERAY, The Yellowplush Correspondence, in Fraser’s Magazine, 10 Oct. Skelton’s Anatomy … is a work which as been long wanted in the littery world. A reglar slap-up, no-mistake, OUT-AN’-OUT account of the manners and usitches of genteel society.
1843. DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit, vii. 71. A quarrelsome family, or a malicious family, or even a good OUT-AND-OUT mean family, would open a field of action as I might do something in.
1874. E. L. LINTON, Patricia Kemball, vii. You are OUT-AND-OUT the most independent radical for a lady I have ever seen.
1897. KENNARD, The Girl in the Brown Habit, ii. That’s the way with them OUT-AND-OUT sportsmen. They’re always the first to come to a comrade’s assistance.
