arse about
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- arse-about (adjective)
Pronunciation[edit]
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Verb[edit]
arse about (third-person singular simple present arses about, present participle arsing about, simple past and past participle arsed about)
- Alternative form of arse around
- (obsolete, slang) To turn round.
Adjective[edit]
arse about (not comparable)
- (slang) The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong.
- You've got this arse-about!
- 1995, David Wills, Prosthesis, Stanford University Press, page 207:
- For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.
- 2007, L. J. Spears, Jack Flagg[1], page 66:
- Strike me if wasn't thinking old Colonel Bill had got it arse about.
- 2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring, Pan MacMillan Australia, page 65:
- ‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing. […] .’
References[edit]
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Arse about”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.