Term Gallery logo

Meanings of topsy-turvydom in English

Portuguese
balbúrdia
Catalan
desconcert
Spanish
desconcierto

A state of extreme confusion and disorder.

balbúrdia
Usage of topsy-turvydom in English
1
How soon are our friends likely to discover this topsy-turvydom?
The Tavern Knight
2
We see a domestic topsy-turvydom in many Japanese sketches.
A Miscellany of Men
3
The revolution, if it brought topsy-turvydom in politics, like its great forerunner '89 brought the apogee of song.
In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a "Devious Trav...
4
He felt more sentimental than he cared to show, and the topsy-turvydom of the room made him fidgety.
Married
5
But despite the topsy-turvydom, we were made welcome, and both Phillips and Smith did their best to entertain.
Across China on Foot
6
Their first feeling was that they had come out into eternity, and that eternity was very like topsy-turvydom.
Manalive
7
Not a little perplexed was Cynthia at the topsy-turvydom in which that morning she had found her father's house.
The Tavern Knight
8
But wherever trees and towns hang head downwards in a pigmy puddle, the sense of Celestial topsy-turvydom is the same.
A Miscellany of Men
9
But innovations which tend to bring about a kind of social topsy-turvydom, ought only to be undertaken by general consent.
The Country Doctor
10
But this new spiritual dread was a more awful thing than had been the mere spiritual topsy-turvydom symbolised by the paralytic who pursued him.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Translations for topsy-turvydom