topsy-turvy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: topsy-turvy	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
topsy-turvy adv in a disordered manner; "they were piled up higgledy- piggledy" Synonym(s): higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy in disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter" Synonym(s): head over heels, heels over head, topsy- turvy, topsy-turvily, in great confusion adj in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topsy-turvy \Top"sy-tur"vy\, adv. [Earlier topside-turvey, topsy-tervy; probably for top so turvy; that is, the top as turvy, as it were turvy; where turvy probably means, overturned, fr. {AS}. torfian to throw.] In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.