Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Topsy-turvy.
Examples
“May a 'gae tapsalteerie, O! A week more and I should have become reabsorbed into this medium past recovery and past recognition ....”
“Things will go tapsalteerie, Allan, but let them; we will have a bite and a cup of kindness together.”
“That dang them tapsalteerie, O. CONTENTS·BOOK CONTENTS·BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD·GLOSSARY”
“It was David Vedder's whiskey that turned ma boat tapsalteerie, Geordie Twatt. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tapsalteerie’.
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
fuckup, snafu, fiasco, abortion, miscarriage, implosion, contretemps, imbroglio, brouhaha, melee, kerfuffle, mayhem and 156 more...
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Better Words
Extremely fond of adjectives. To conquer phlegmatic speech and indolent phrases.
auric, hemispherical, quadrivial, adumbral, weighty, deuced, aliquot, commendable, anterior, osculant, ferly, enceinte and 26 more...
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 233 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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To Learn & Use
extrapolate, Abderian, obstreperous, iconoclasm, tapsalteerie, agelast, ignimbrite, Abecedarian, Abligurition, Accubation, Aeolist, agerasia and 123 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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Words
I've looked up.
addax, aitch, effulgence, quaternary, glycyrrhizin, guernsey, gnomon, clepsydra, augury, vacua, gossypol, diol and 21 more...
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Found on the front page of Wordnik
I tell you, there's some pretty awesome stuff there that I want to remember.
vraic, wayz-goose, ombrophobous, tapsalteerie, wharfinger, saltigrade, addax, spooniness, calibogus, ignimbrite, obnubilation, iconomachy and 14 more...
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A guid Scotch tongue
dreich, teuchter, crabbit, fankle, feart, ne'erday, skelp, haud yer wheesht, Jock Tamson's bairns, clype, gie it laldy, sleekit and 34 more...
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Descriptions etc.
Favorite adjectives.
irascible, evanescent, wanton, cynical, ineluctable, blase, sanguine, vindictive, self-effacing, derelict, tepid, phlegmatic and 36 more...
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Whimsical Word Waggery
delightfully youthful and energetically inspired words of joy and mirth and play! In order to post on this list, you must know deep down in your soul that you still have un irresisitible affinity f...
madeupical, funfortunate, splendiferous, fantabulous, pollyannary, humbuggery, hullabaloo, flibbertigibbet, pitter-patter, windbaggery, cockamamie, diddly-squat and 45 more...
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Welcome in Wonderland
Real words that I think would fit right into Wonderland/Underland vocabulary. Because I'm a geeky fangirl and that's how I roll. ^_^
widdershins, kenspeckle, thropple, whigmaleerie, swither, kerfuffle, stravaig, guddle, tapsalteerie, clashmaclavers, murgullie, umbersorrow and 37 more...
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bilby
But gie me a cannie hour at e'en,
My arms about my dearie, O;
An' war'ly cares, an' war'ly men,
May a' gae tapsalteerie, O!
Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend,
Are spent amang the lasses, O.
- Robert Burns, 'Green Grow The Rashes'. Jan 28, 2009
bilby Scots - in a mess; upside down. Dec 27, 2007