Standard Lemma guide
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adv
Backwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: East-Anglia, Scotland, UK, dialectal, especially, not-comparable
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noun
A petty and obnoxious person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, derogatory, rare, slang
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History
From Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”). Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings. By surface analysis, arse + -ling.
From arse + -ling.
