Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in swearing; overcome by swearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in swearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
swear (use vulgar or profane language) more frequently or powerfully than.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unlike some successful female comedians, such as Sarah Silverman, Fey has not had to outswear and outoffend her male rivals to do well.
Tina Fey has the last laugh as she conquers the male world of comedy 2011
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I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should outswear Cupid.
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He could outswear the Sergeants, outmarch the Rifles and outfight any man in green or scarlet.
Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001
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I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should outswear Cupid.
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Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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And we'll back a teamster's offspring to outswear a city brat.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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At ten he could drink as much liquor as Nancy herself, and outswear the ablest lawyer in the town.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Various 1888
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I will outswear you, my lady; and I shall be believed.
A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884
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I said, "No, sir; do you suppose I am fool enough to swear against all of those men to have them outswear me, and no one to corroborate my statement, and bring me in for the costs?"
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But he had a couple of defects -- not large defects, but they seemed large when flung against the background of his profoundly religious character: he drank a good deal, and he could outswear a brakeman.
Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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