(UK, dialect, obsolete) ; opposite; the wrong way round.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) ; opposite; the wrong way round.
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(now, _, chiefly, _, Scotland) The wrong way.
(slang, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, vulgar) The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong.
(US, Australia) All over the place; every which way.
(UK, _, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To the west of.
(Geordie, Northern England) Opposite to; in opposition to; contrary to.