arseling
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”), equivalent to arse + -ling. Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings.
Adverb[edit]
arseling (not comparable)
- (UK dialectal, especially Scotland, East Anglia) Backwards.
References[edit]
- Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “ARSELING”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
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