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widishins

widishins is the alternative form of widdershins.

Meaning of widdershins

Adverb

widdershins (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, now chiefly fantasy or witchcraft) Anticlockwise, counter-clockwise.
    • It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church.
  2. (Scotland) The wrong way.

Questions about widishins

What is widishins the alternative form of?
Widishins is the alternative form of widdershins.

Words near widishins in the dictionary

  1. Widhalms
  2. Widia
  3. Widick
  4. Widicks
  5. widish
  6. widishins
  7. Widjaja
  8. Widjajas
  9. Widlar
  10. Widlarize
  11. Widlarized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widishins (page history and authors); widdershins (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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