outnight

outnight

English

Etymology

out- +‎ night

Verb

outnight (third-person singular simple present outnights, present participle outnighting, simple past and past participle outnighted)

1. (transitive) To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I would outnight you, did nobody come:
     But hark, I hear the footing of a man.

   • 1935, The Indian Forester (volume 61, page 358)

     The Peinti could outnight the heartiest of London's "Bright Young People."

   • 1916, Amy Lowell, Pickthorn Manor

     "In such a night–" she laid the book aside,
     She could outnight the poet by thinking back.
     In such a night she came here as a bride.

Anagrams

• night out