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topsyturning

topsyturning is the present participle and gerund of topsyturn.

Meaning of topsyturn

Verb

topsyturn (third-person singular simple present topsyturns, present participle topsyturning, simple past and past participle topsyturned)

  1. (transitive) To turn upside down, or bring into a state of disorder.
    • a Cockney couple who topsyturn a country estate1993, Time, volume 141, numbers 9-17, page 54

Questions about topsyturning

What is topsyturning the present participle and gerund of?
Topsyturning is the present participle and gerund of topsyturn.

Words near topsyturning in the dictionary

  1. topsy-turvying
  2. topsy-turvyness
  3. topsy-turvys
  4. topsyturn
  5. topsyturned
  6. topsyturning
  7. topsyturns
  8. topsyturvily
  9. topsyturviness
  10. topsyturvy
  11. topsyturvydom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: topsyturning (page history and authors); topsyturn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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