topsy-turvy

topsy-turvy englannista suomeksi

1. hujan hajan oleva, hujan hajan, sikin sokin, mullin mallin oleva, sekava, sikin sokin oleva

2. sekasortoisesti

3. mullin mallin, sekaisin

1. nurin niskoin, nurin perin, takaperin, ylösalaisin

2. hujan hajan, mullin mallin, sekaisin, sikin sokin, vinksin vonksin, heikun keikun

3. nurinkurinen, takaperoinen

4. sekava, sotkuinen

4. Substantiivi

4. Verbi

topsy-turvy englanniksi

1. Backwards or down; also, having been overturned or upset.

(synonyms)

2. (RQ:Garnier Kyd Cornelia)

3. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)

4. (quote-book)|location=Dublin|publisher=(...) S. Powell, for the author|year=1742|pages=31–32|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=C3c1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA32|oclc=78571001|passage=''China'', and ''Ganges'', and ''Japan'', / Are Words my ''Papa'' taught my Pen. He ſays, they're Countries to be found, / In a ſtrange World, below the Ground; / Where Folks with Feet erected treat, / And diſtant, downward hang their Head; / Fearleſs they topſy turvy run, / With naught beneath—but Skies and Sun.

5. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

6. (RQ:Eliot Mill on the Floss)

7. Not in the natural order of things; in a disorderly manner; chaotically.

8. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Charlewood|Iohn Charlewood for Andrew Maunsell,(nb...)|year=1576|section=folio 22, recto|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=RsDmtaebeiQC&pg=RA1-PA21-IA4|oclc=1121366737|passage=Diuilliſh it is to deſtroy a cittie, but more then diuilliſhe, to euert citties, to betraye countreies, to cause ſeruaunts to kyll their maiſters, parentes theyr children, children their parentes, wiues their huſbandes, and to turne all things topſy turuy, and yet it doth ſo, as ſhalbe declared.

9. Backwards or down.

10. (RQ:Congreve Way of the World)

11. (RQ:Orwell Burmese Days)

12. Chaotic; disorderly.

13. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=[(glossary)]|year=1675|page=10|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A70779.0001.001/17:4.1?vid=64138|oclc=1227597255|passage=John Chrysostom|''John'' ''Chrysostom'' saith, ''An Oath came in when Evils increased, when men appeared unfaithful, when all things became Topsy Turvy.''

14. (RQ:Collins Poor Miss Finch)

15. (quote-journal)

16. An act of turning something backwards or down, or the situation that something is in after this has happened.

17. (quote-book)|edition=revised|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Phillips, Sampson and Company,(nb...)|year=1850|page=159|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIReAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA159|oclc=557588922|passage=Perhaps he was at a loss for the points of compass, as is often the case in tumbles and topsy-turvies.

18. A situation where the natural order of things has been upset.

19. (quote-book)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=T. B. Peterson & Brothers,(nb...)|year=1849|year_published=1866|pages=110–111|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjA7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110|oclc=9948373|passage=... has seed a heap of scatterments and topsyturvies: here's hoping dat you all may swim smoofly along the briny waves of sacrificin' time, and ford the Jordan of destructive equinoxes, while fiery billows roll beneath!

20. (quote-book)

21. Chaos, confusion, disorder.

22. (RQ:Eliot Theophrastus Such)

23. To turn topsy-turvy or down; to invert.

24. (quote-journal).'' By George Eliot. 3 vols. 1859. 2. ''(w).'' By George Eliot. 2 vols. 1858. review|magazine=Review|The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal|location=London|publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; Edinburgh: & C Black|Adam and Charles Black|month=July|year=1859|volume=CX|issue=CCXXIII|page=241|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGIJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA241|oclc=950902861|passage=Mr. Eliot|George Eliot's descriptions of scenery are perfect: ... and so are his descriptions of children. ... We forbear (though with regret) the introduction to our readers of Totty's bald doll, ignominously ‘topsy turvied’ by her insulting brother.

25. To throw into chaos or disorder; to upset.

26. (quote-book)|year=1854|section=chapter II (How It Departed)|page=148|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-a8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148|oclc=15634084|passage=... Mrs. Sykes said, ‘her man was the wust she ever knowed when he got topsy-turveyed.’ And as now, he began to get topsy-turveyed pretty regularly before he had finished his daily business with the retiring host of the Holly Bush, there was not much peace at home.

27. (quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=Rogerson and Tuxford,(nb...)|month=July–December|year=1858|volume=XLIX|page=188|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0cFAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA188|column=1|oclc=6618599|passage=Has not a diluent expletive been interjected to fill up a ''line''? has not a plain proposition been topsy-turvied, till subject and object are miserably confused, because of ''accent''?

28. (RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)

29. (quote-book)|year=1892|page=ix|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUYDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR9|oclc=8964079|passage=My literary life was rather topsy-turveyed by a couple of untoward accidents last year, and a prostrating attack of influenza, and bronchitis subsequently, for the cure of which I am indebted to the climate of Portugal, ...