Thank you to Aeryn Rudel for suggesting a new addition to my blog topics – weird hyphenated words!
‘Arsy-versy’ is an informal, primarily British English word. It means backwards, upside down, in reverse, confused or disordered.
I got things arsy-versy.
I probably wouldn’t use it in front of polite company.
Hannah McCall 
Great word! I’ve never heard that one before. Interestingly, there’s an American equivalent, “bass-ackwards.” It’s used pretty much the same way, although it’s often more derogatory. “That idiot went about the whole thing bass-ackwards.”
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That’s a good one too. I’m not sure that I would be able to make ‘bass-ackwards’ sound natural in conversation but I think I could get away with ‘arsy-versy’.
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Hah! I’m imagining someone speaking in a British accent and casually slipping ‘bass-ackwards’ into a conversation. It’d probably sound as weird as me trying to use ‘arsy-versy.’ 😉
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lol That is a very weird looking and sounding word 🙂
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It is strange. But I quite like it …
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