outa

From Afrikaans outa.

outa (plural outas)

1. (South Africa) An old black man.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 133:

     As I stood to one side to let him go out, she asked: “Daddy, is he an uncle or an outa?”

   • 2001, South African Theatre Journal, volume 15, page 48:

     Secondly, there is an old black man, the Outa, who stumbles in from the dark to die beside their fire.

   • 2003, Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue, page 275:

     The reference is to a cheerful little ditty, in which an old black man, an ‘outa’, takes the long road to Mebosspruit, playing his tin guitar along the way.

Variant forms.

outa

1. Alternative spelling of outta
   • 1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, page 101:

     […] and lo! here’s all humanity hep and weird wandering on the evening sidewalk amazing me outa my eyeballs […]

• Auto, Auto., aout, auto, auto-, auto.

Said to be a blend of Afrikaans oud (“old”) and Sotho ntate (“father”).

outa (uncountable)

1. An old black man.

• D. C. Hauptfleisch. 1993. "Racist language in society and in dictionaries: A pragmatic perspective". Lexikos[1]

From Sami, compare Northern Sami vuovdi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈou̯tɑ/, [ˈo̞u̯t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -outɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ou‧ta

outa (dialectal)

1. (Peräpohjola dialects) forest

• metsä

• auot, auto, auto-