upsodown

See also: up so down

Middle English

Adverb

upsodown

1. upside down
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.