What’re Words For, Part 11

You know the feeling you get when you have to go back to work after being away for several days? Usually happens after a long holiday weekend, or a vacation. You feel slow, and it’s hard to get going. Feels like you could be going backwards, perhaps?

Hmmmm……..

I present, this week’s word.


Word: Barse-ackwards (Adv.)
Definition: Reversed
“Sit yourself the other way in that canoe! You’re paddlin’ it barse-ackwards!”

(Definition from: "How To Talk Yankee", by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Or, in my case after having been out of the office for 6 days for the Thanksgiving holiday:
“Joe, you need to turn your chair around at your desk cuz you’re sitting at it barse-ackwards”

Sometimes, that’s just the way it is.