Timeline for Is “outpander” a received English word? Can “out” be used to any verb as one likes?

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Mar 7, 2012 at 22:38	comment	added	Mitch		@Jon: Yes, in concentrated circumstances, like reading Maureen Dowd, your out-be and out-have -might- work, but they'd would stretch the imagination quite a bit (which is what I meant by 'doesn't seem to work well').
Mar 7, 2012 at 20:39	comment	added	Jon Purdy		@Mitch: Use your imagination. Out-be (be more than), out-have (have more than), out-like (like something more than), out-contain (contain more than), and so on are all pretty cromulent. At least they would be understood in context.
Mar 7, 2012 at 19:15	comment	added	FumbleFingers		It's not exactly a "new coinage" by Dowd - there are maybe a dozen instances with the same meaning in Google Books. But I would say Dowd's usage is a pretty "ugly". As this chart shows, "pander" is normally followed by the word "to". The quirky "out-" prefix and following reflexive pronoun simply invite confusion - not least with "out-pampered himself". Trashy journalese, imho.
Mar 7, 2012 at 18:56	history	edited	Yoichi Oishi	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 4 characters in body
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Mar 7, 2012 at 14:00	comment	added	Mitch		The four examples you gave would all work in the right context (I would prefer using a hyphen as 'out-'), but they are all pretty informal. Semantically it doesn't seem to work well with stative verbs.
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