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- noun Obsolete spelling of
orangutan .
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Examples
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It is probable that the wild man of the Arkansas is, in reality, some species of the oran-outang, or chimpanzee.
Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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Madagascar squirrel, the Senegal lemur, two varieties of the oran-outang, the proboscis-monkey, different specimens of the indri, some new species of bats and opossums, the Batavian kangaroo, and several antelopes, ant-eaters, &c.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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The animals hero arc the fame as on the continent of India, vi/.. bears, tygers, elephants, bulfalocs. deer, Szc. but the moll remarkable animal, and which is alinoll pctuliartothis illand, is that monllrous monkey called the oran-outang, or man of the wo - .o llranger wnirM venture to go near them. livery perfon who rr. idcsui this place, mull have a licence li) r that purpofe frnni the king of.
chained_bear commented on the word oran-outang
Archaic; orangutan; for another archaic spelling see orang-utang.
August 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word oran-outang
Wrong rather than archaic as it relates to colonialists mishearing the Malay orang hutan.
August 26, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word oran-outang
Well, nobody said it was archaic but me, and I spelled it that way based on the printed book that came out in the 1790s or early 1800s. Seems like there are enough variants of this particular word that you could argue they were all misheard.
August 26, 2008