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Definition of Topsy-turvily
1. Adverb. In disorderly haste. "We ran head over heels toward the shelter"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topsy-turvily
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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