ext_21044 ([identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] muckefuck 2010-04-15 02:28 am (UTC)

Literal meanings

  1. "turned around
  2. ?, "back to front"
  3. "paws up"
  4. "above below"
  5. "direction above below"
  6. "midst through midst"
  7. "arse over tit" (okay, "base over head")
  8. "overturned up to the legs"
  9. "backrow riprow"
  10. "seven totter eight invert"
So in general, the core meaning is "overturned; upside down" and the most common extending meaning is "in disorder". There's not too many which--as far as I can tell--clearly refer to a climate of Misrule. In general, I was trying to match register and onomatopoeic impact more than meaning.

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