Arsy-Varsy
arsy-varsy (AR-see VAR-see) adjective, adverb
Upside-down, backward, preposterous.
[A facetious rhyming compound of arse (a variant or ass); perhaps
coined after vice versa, from Latin versus, from vertere (to turn).]
-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)
"The sense of things being arsy-varsy persists at this first make-up
session."
Simon Callow; Shooting the Actor; Picador; 2003.

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