Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being outdoorsy.
“You’re getting brown, Patty,” said Roger, looking admiringly at the tanned face. / “Yes, it’s outdoorsiness as does it! I swim and walk, and play tennis and go motoring all day long, and I sleep on a veranda at night.”
1911, Carolyn Wells, “The First Arrivals”, in Patty’s Motor Car, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, pages 160–1612 more examples
I felt that they had come from a jolly good romp somewhere—on the shore, probably, tossing balls to each other and wading and maybe uproariously burying one of the stouter men in the sand and dancing around him. / In spite of their outdoorsiness, however, none of them looked healthy. The men were either fat and middle-aged or young and scrawny with a fine display of pimples.
1946, Patrick Quentin [pseudonym; Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler], Love Is a Deadly Weapon, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, Inc., published 1949, page 155The only thing she could smell now was that pleasant yet strange, faint, earthy, foresty smell that she’d noticed the night before. Maybe that’s what he smelt like in the classroom and it was just the weirdness, the oddness of it, at school that made people roll their noses at him. Maybe they mistook the cool stony outdoorsiness of it for unwashed clothes.
2016, A.F. Harrold, “Tuesday”, in The Song from Somewhere Else, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 43
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