outzany

English

Etymology

out- +‎ zany

Verb

outzany (third-person singular simple present outzanies, present participle outzanying, simple past and past participle outzanied)

  1. (rare, obsolete) To exceed in buffoonery.
    • 1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams
      Thou dost outzany Cokely
    • 1998, Leslie Gourse, The Ella Fitzgerald companion: seven decades of commentary:
      The stories of his adventures outzany those of any other figure in jazz, even certified cuckoos like the maniacal Jack Purvis and the perverse Joe Venuti.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for outzany in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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