Noun: utter
Sample Sentences
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I take my leave, readie to countervaile all your courtesies to the utter of my power. [1584 August 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), John Aubrey, quoting Walter Raleigh, “Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)”, in Andrew Clark, editor, ‘Brief Lives,’ Chiefly of Contemporaries, […], volume II (I–Y), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1898, →OCLC, page 192:]
Nouns inflected like utter
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *úd
3. The adjective is derived from Middle English outre, utter, uttre (“situated on the outside of, exterior”), from Old English ūtera (“exterior, outer”, literally “more out”), the comparative form of ūt (“out”). Piecewise doublet of outer.
4. The noun is derived from the adjective. See: Middle English Nouns '
outre', Old English Nouns '
ūtera'.