Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as topsyturvy.

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  • She meliorates the race, so that dogs and cats will learn in the end that it is less dull to frequent a poet than an unhappy Collège de France candidate -- had this candidate proven more copiously still, that the author of "Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe" had topsyturvily described the jawbone of the Crocodile_.

    Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913

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