outa

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.

Variant forms.

outa

1. Alternative spelling of outta

• Auto, Auto., aout, auto, auto-

From Sami, compare Northern Sami vuovdi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈou̯tɑ/, [ˈo̞u̯t̪ɑ]
• Hyphenation: ou‧ta

outa

1. (dialectal, Peräpohjola dialects) forest

• metsä

• auot, auto