From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Outlandish \Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. [=u]tlendisc foreign. See
{Out}, {Land}, and {-ish}.]
1. Foreign; not native. [archaic]
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Him did outlandish women cause to sin. --Neh. xiii.
26.
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Its barley water and its outlandish wines. --G. W.
Cable.
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2. Hence: Deviating conspicuously from common practice;
strange; freakish; bizarre; rude; barbarous; uncouth;
clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech; --
usually used in a negative sense.
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Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with
ordinary fashion. --Hawthorne.
[1913 Webster] --{Out*land"ish*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outlandish
adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another
like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a
freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall
antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre
and affected stage antics" [syn: {bizarre}, {eccentric},
{freakish}, {freaky}, {flaky}, {flakey}, {gonzo}, {off-
the-wall}, {outlandish}, {outre}]
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