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Etymology
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Alteration of earlier up so down, from Middle English up-so-doun, upsedowne, upsadowne (“upside down”), equivalent to up + so + down ("up as down").
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): (careful speech) /ˌʌpsaɪd ˈdaʊn/, (fast speech) /ˌʌpsaɪˈdaʊn/
upside down (not comparable)
- Inverted, so that the top is now at the bottom.
The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger.
1937, “A Foggy Day (In London Town)”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music):For, suddenly, I saw you there / And through foggy London town / The sun was shining upside down!
- In great disorder.
- The thief had turned the room upside down.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.
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- Armenian: գլխիվայր (hy) (glxivayr), թարս (hy) (tʻars), շուռ տված (šuṙ tvac)
- Assamese: ওলোটা (ülüta)
- Bulgarian: наопаки (bg) (naopaki)
- Catalan: a l'inrevés (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 反 (faan2)
- Mandarin: 反 (zh) (fǎn)
- Czech: vzhůru nohama
- Danish: omvendt, på hovedet
- Dutch: ondersteboven (nl)
- Estonian: kummuli
- Finnish: ylösalaisin (fi), nurinperin
- French: à l'envers, sens dessus dessous (fr)
- Galician: cabeza abaixo
- Georgian: თავდაყირა (tavdaq̇ira)
- German: auf dem Kopf, verkehrt herum, verkehrt rum, umgekehrt (de)
- Greek: ανάποδα (el) (anápoda)
- Haitian Creole: tèt anba
- Hebrew: הָפוּךְ m (hafúch)
- Hungarian: fejjel lefelé (hu)
- Iban: tunsang
- Icelandic: á hvolfi
- Irish: bunoscionn
- Italian: a rovescio, sottosopra (it), al rovescio, a testa in giù, al contrario
- Japanese: 逆さに (ja) (sakasa ni), 逆さまに (ja) (sakasama ni)
- Korean: 거꾸로 (ko) (geokkuro)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: sernişîv (ku), serberjêr (ku), nixûm (ku)
- Latin: inversus
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: kōaro
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: opp ned
- Nynorsk: opp ned
- Polish: do góry nogami (pl)
- Portuguese: de cabeça para baixo, de ponta-cabeça
- Punjabi: ਪੁੱਠਾ (puṭṭhā)
- Romanian: cu fundul în sus, cu susul în jos
- Russian: вверх дно́м (ru) (vverx dnóm), вверх нога́ми (vverx nogámi), кверх нога́ми (kverx nogámi) (colloquial)
- Scottish Gaelic: bun-os-cionn
- Slovak: naopak, dole hlavou, hore nohami
- Spanish: al revés, boca abajo, bocabajo, de cabeza
- Swedish: upp och ner (sv), uppochner (sv), upp och ned (sv), uppochned (sv)
- Tagalog: tumbalik, tiwarik (tl)
- Ukrainian: догори́ дри́ґом (dohorý drýgom), вверх дно́м (vverx dnóm), вверх нога́ми (uk) (vverx nohámy)
- Vietnamese: lộn ngược
- Walloon: cou å hôt
- Welsh: ben ucha'n isa'
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Adjective
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upside down (not comparable)
- Inverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom.
- The pattern resembled an upside down letter W.
- In great disorder.
1901, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The lion's whelp: a story of Cromwell's time, page 248:The wenches and the men have been on the streets all day, and the kitchen is upside down. You never saw the like.
- (finance) Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity.
- He's upside down on his mortgage.
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- Bikol Central: bulagsok, bugsok (bcl), suwi
- Bulgarian: обърнат (bg) (obǎrnat)
- Catalan: a l'inrevés (ca), cap per avall
- Danish: omvendt
- Dutch: omgekeerd (nl), op z'n kop
- Finnish: ylösalainen (fi)
- French: à l’envers (fr)
- Greek: ανάποδος (el) (anápodos)
- Hebrew: הָפוּךְ m (hafúch)
- Hungarian: fordított (hu), megfordított (hu), fejjel lefelé fordított
- Iban: tunsang
- Irish: bun os cionn
- Italian: invertito (it), inverso (it), capovolto (it), rovesciato (it), a testa in giù
- Japanese: 逆さ (ja) (sakasa), 逆さま (ja) (sakasama)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Ottoman Turkish: وارون (varun)
- Portuguese: de cabeça para baixo, de ponta-cabeça
- Slovak: obrátený
- Spanish: al revés
- Swedish: uppochnedvänd (sv), uppochnervänd (sv)
- Turkish: altüst (tr)
- Vietnamese: lộn ngược
- Welsh: wyneb i waered
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