an outen man

1942: ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn gust. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)

The result is the exclusion of access by a selecting head to information about either the phonological form or the syntactic subconstituency of its arguments.

She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.