topsyturvydom

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topsyturvydom

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From topsyturvy + -dom.

noun topsyturvydoms · topsy-turvydom

countable, uncountable A state of affairs, or a region in which everything is topsyturvy. But the young wife has not altogether an enviable position, for by one of those queer topsyturvydoms which occur in Japan, the mother-in-law—who, in the West, is so often the object of cheap satire—is a veritable terror in the Far East to the wife.

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@misc{topsyturvydom_2026,
  title = {topsyturvydom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/topsyturvydom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}