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  • 1.2 Etymology
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  • 1.4 Adverb
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    • 1.4.2 Translations
  • 1.5 Adjective
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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: upside-down, upsidedown, and Upside Down

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:upside downWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• downside up
• upside-down, upsidedown
• up so down (14th–16th centuries)

Etymology

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From Middle English up sid doun, an alteration of earlier upsadowne, upsedowne, up-so-doun (“upside down”), equivalent to up +‎ so +‎ down, literally “up as down”.[1]

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): (careful speech) /ˌʌpsaɪd ˈdaʊn/, (fast speech) /ˌʌpsaɪˈdaʊn/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

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upside down (not comparable)

1. Inverted, so that the top is now at the bottom. The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger.
   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 153:His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
   • 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!
2. In great disorder. The thief had turned the room upside down.
   • c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature C2, recto:Peaſe and beanes are as danke here as a dog and that is the next way to giue poore iades the bots: this houſe is turned vpſide downe ſince Robin Oſtler died.

Synonyms

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• (inverted): bottom-upwards, topsy-turvy

Translations

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Armenian: գլխիվայր (hy) (glxivayr), թարս (hy) (tʻars), շուռ տված (šuṙ tvac) Assamese: ওলোটা (ülüta) Azerbaijani: alt-üst, tərsinə 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, boca 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) Hindi: उल्टा (hi) (ulṭā), विलोमित (hi) (vilomit) Hungarian: fejjel lefelé (hu) Iban: tunsang Icelandic: á hvolfi Irish: bunoscionn Italian: a rovescio, sottosopra (it), al rovescio, a testa in giù, al contrario (it) 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 Lithuanian: aukštyn kojomis Malay: please add this translation if you can Māori: kōaro Norwegian: Bokmål: opp ned Nynorsk: opp ned Polish: do góry nogami (pl) Portuguese: de cabeça para baixo, de ponta-cabeça, ao contrário, de pernas para o ar 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 Sikkimese: ག་སྦུབ (ga sbub) 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) Tamil: தலைகீழாக (ta) (talaikīḻāka) 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'

in great disorder

Finnish: sekaisin (fi), ylösalaisin (fi), sotkussa (fi) French: sens dessus dessous (fr) Galician: patas arriba Greek: άνω κάτω (el) (áno káto) Hebrew: הָפוּךְ m (hafúch) Hungarian: szanaszét (hu) Irish: trí chéile Italian: sottosopra (it), a soqquadro (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: serûbin (ku), tarûmar (ku) Polish: do góry nogami (pl) Portuguese: de pernas para o ar Romanian: pe dos Russian: кувырко́м (ru) (kuvyrkóm) Scots: awhummle Slovak: hore nohami Spanish: de cabeza, patas arriba (es) Swedish: upp och ned (sv) Tamil: தலைகீழாக (ta) (talaikīḻāka) Vietnamese: đổ lộn Walloon: cou dzeu cou dzo (wa)

Adjective

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upside down (not comparable)

1. Inverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom. The pattern resembled an upside down letter W.
2. 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.
3. (finance) Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity. He's upside down on his mortgage.
4. (humorous) Australian.

Synonyms

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• (having negative equity): underwater

Derived terms

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• fuck someone upside down
• turn one's life upside down
• turn one's world upside down
• turn the frown upside down
• turn upside down
• upside-down cake
• upside-down fire
• upside down fridge
• upside-down income statement
• upside-down Jenny
• upside-down tree

Translations

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Bikol: Central Bikol: bulagsok, bugsok (bcl), suwi Bulgarian: обърнат (bg) (obǎrnat) Catalan: a l'inrevés (ca), cap per avall Danish: omvendt Dutch: omgekeerd (nl), op zijn kop Finnish: ylösalainen (fi) French: à l'envers (fr) Greek: ανάποδος (el) (anápodos) Hebrew: הָפוּךְ m (hafúkh) 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: terbalik (ms) Polish: do góry nogami (pl) Portuguese: de cabeça para baixo, de ponta-cabeça Slovak: obrátený Spanish: al revés Swedish: uppochnedvänd (sv), uppochnervänd (sv) Turkish: altüst (tr) Ottoman Turkish: وارون (varun) Vietnamese: lộn ngược Welsh: wyneb i waered

having negative equity

Polish: do góry nogami (pl)

in great disorder

Polish: do góry nogami (pl)

Proper noun

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the upside down

1. Alternative letter-case form of Upside Down.
   • 2022 September, Scott R. Sheehan, “The President’s Prose: Inside, Outside, Upside Down”, in Music Educators Journal‎[1], volume 109, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 7–10:It is in the upside down where we can find many opportunities to grow and learn.
   • 2023 January, Tess Bissell, “Teaching in the Upside Down: What Anti–Critical Race Theory Laws Tell Us About the First Amendment”, in Stanford Law Review‎[2], volume 75, page 212:it asks courts to step into the reality educators face: the reality of teaching in the upside down.

References

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1. ^ “upside down, adv., n., and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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• downside up

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