topsyturvydom

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state of affairs, or a region in which everything is topsyturvy. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

topsyturvydoms plural topsy-turvydom alternative

词源

From topsyturvy + -dom.
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