Definition of Topsy-turvily

1. Adverb. In disorderly haste. "We ran head over heels toward the shelter"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Topsy-turvily

topsoiled
topsoiling
topsoils
topspin
topspinning
topspins
topspun
topstitch
topstitched
topstitches
topstitching
topstone
topstones
topsy-turvier
topsy-turviest
topsy-turvily (current term)
topsy-turvy
topsy-turvydom
topsy-turvyness
topsy turvy
topt
topwater
topwork
topworked
topworking
topworks
toquake
toquash
toque
toques

Literary usage of Topsy-turvily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"The particular copy that now lies open before me is a Topsy-Turvily-bound book! That is, the cover is perfectly and symmetrically correct ; but, ..."

2. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1868)
"... as New York located under gigantic cabbage-leaves ; of fierce snow-storms in midsummer, and of things in general as topsy-turvily turned as possible. ..."

3. The Letters of Paul Gauguin to Georges Daniel de Monfreid by Paul Gauguin (1922)
"And the words are true, not of his art only, but in a way of his life also—that unquiet restless existence, curving so topsy-turvily past the uneventful and ..."

4. British Journal by George Cruikshank (1853)
"If a small earthquake had been there, keeping it up all night, the things could not have been more disordered, more topsy- turvily damaged. ..."

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