"Out" as a verb

[Laurence Horn]

Doesn't look like it.  The OED has "out with" dating back to 1802, 


1802    R. L. Edgeworth & M. Edgeworth Ess. Irish Bulls x. 130,   I out's with my bread-earner.
1821    J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 34   And Hodge‥Outs with his pence the pleasing song to buy.
1833    Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 693   He outs carelessly with another duodecimo.

and other verbal uses of "out" are older.  (Some, of course, are newer.)

LH

On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:39 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:29:35  "Baker, John" <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM> posted:
> 
> <snip>
>    The following story appears, via the Access Newspaper Archive, in the D=
> emocratic Standard, Janesville, Wisconsin (Mar. 14, 1855), p. 4; the Sauk C=
> ounty Standard, Baraboo, Wisconsin (Mar. 14, 1855), p. 1; The Agitator, Wel=
> lsboro, Pennsylvania (Mar. 29, 1855), p. 1; and the Newport Daily News, New=
> port, Rhode Island (June 19, 1855), p. 2.
> 
> <big snip>
> 
> C-------- promised never to "blow" on his judicial friend and kept his word, until he learned the Judge was compelled to tell it himself, for unfortunately he carried the big shirt home and Mrs. A-------- made some inquiries.  He had to out with it; and it being told by the Judge himself, Mr. C-------- felt at liberty to tell it also: which he does somtimes to the infinite merriment of all who hear him."
> 
> 
> 
> John  Baker
> 
> ------------------------------
> Is this an antedating for the use of "out" as a verb?
> 
>    - Jim Landau
> 
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