different between outa vs outta

English

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans outa

Noun

outa (plural outas)

1. (South Africa) An old black man.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 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, vol. 15, p. 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, p. 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.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Preposition

outa

1. Alternative spelling of outta

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Noun

outa (uncountable)

1. An old black man.

Further reading

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Sami, compare Northern Sami vuovdi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ou?t?/, [?o?u?t??]
• Rhymes: -out?
• Syllabification: ou?ta

Noun

outa

1. (dialectal, Peräpohjola dialects) forest

Declension

Synonyms

• metsä

Anagrams

• auot, auto, auto-

English

Alternative forms

• outa (rare)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?t?/

• Homophone: outer

• (US) IPA^(key): /?a???/, /?a???/, /?æ???/

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?????/

Preposition

outta

1. (colloquial, US) Out of.

   I'm outta here!

Derived terms

• get outta
• get outta here

Anagrams

• tatou, tauto-