upsodown
See also: up so down
Middle English
Adverb
upsodown
- upside down
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, line 259:
- And ye shall understonde that in mannes sinne is every manere of ordre or ordinaunce turned up-so-doun.
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References
- upsodown in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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