wrong side out
wrong side out adverb: of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
Adverb
wrong side out (not comparable)
- Of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
- We all struggled frantically into our clothes, […] getting them wrong-side-out and upside-down, as a rule.1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC
- She began to remove her sweaty clothes, but noticed for the first time that she had her chambray shirt on wrongside out.1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
- Synonyms:
- inside out
- Reversed, changed diametrically, by analogy with a garment that is wrong side out.
- When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot, And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
Synonyms of wrong side out
Forms of wrong side out
| alternative form | the wrong side out |
|---|---|
| alternative form | wrong side before |
| alternative form | wrongside out |
| alternative form | wrong-side out |
| alternative form | wrong-side-out |
Questions about wrong side out
- What does wrong side out mean?
- Wrong side out means of a garment, etc, having its inner or hidden side on the outside and vice versa.
- What part of speech is wrong side out?
- Wrong side out is an adverb.
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