arsy varsy

arsy varsy
Synonyms and related words:
a rebours, against the grain, anarchic, ass over elbows, ass-backwards, back-to-front, backwards, balled up, bollixed up, by contraries, capsized, chaotic, chiastic, confused, contra, contrarily, contrariously, contrariwise, conversely, everted, fouled up, galley-west, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, hyperbatic, in a mess, in flat opposition, inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, inversely, inverted, jumbled, just the opposite, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, nay rather, on the contrary, oppositely, otherwise, outside in, palindromic, per contra, quite the contrary, rather, resupinate, retroverted, reversed, scattered, screwed up, skimble-skamble, snafu, to the contrary, topsy-turvy, tout au contraire, transposed, upside down, upside-down, vice versa, wrong side out

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  • arsy-varsy — /ahr see vahr see/, Informal. adj. 1. wrong end foremost; completely backward: an arsy varsy way of doing things. adv. 2. in a backward or thoroughly mixed up fashion: The papers are all filed arsy varsy. Also, arsyversy /ahr see verr see/. [1530 …   Universalium

  • arsy-varsy —  head over heels ; down came t Tit, and away tumbled she, arsy varsy. Der. and N …   A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

  • arsy varsy — adverb Tumbling upside down; head over heels; backwards. Syn: ass over teakettle, ass backwards, back asswards …   Wiktionary

  • arsy varsy — upside down; reversed; backwards (British Colloquial) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • arsy-varsy — ar·sy var·sy …   English syllables

  • arsy varsy —  Topsy turvy …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • arsy-varsy — …   Useful english dictionary

  • arsy-versy — I. adverb see arsy varsy I II. adjective see arsy varsy II …   Useful english dictionary

  • backward — adv 1. rearward, towards the back, in reverse, vice versa, upside down, topsyturvy, inside out, back in front; crablike, retrocessive ly, retrogressively, regressively, Scot, and North. Eng. backlins; Naut. aback, Naut. abaft, Naut. aft, Naut.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • helter-skelter — adv 1. pell mell, hurry scurry, harum scarum, wildly; headlong, headfirst, head over heels; rashly, recklessly, precipitately, unwarily, carelessly, heedlessly, injudiciously, thoughtlessly; impetuously, impulsively, hastily, hurriedly. 2.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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