topsy-turvy
adverb
with the top where the bottom should be; upside down.
topsy-turvies
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pluralof topsy-turvy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Something has turned her poor little mind topsy-turvies.
From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
It falls and overturns the second, which, in the same way, topsy-turvies the third; and so on, right to the end of the row.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
