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arseling

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of arseling

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (East-Anglia, Scotland, UK, dialectal, especially, not-comparable)Backwards.
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adv

  1. (East-Anglia, Scotland, UK, dialectal, especially, not-comparable)Backwards.

noun

  1. (UK, derogatory, rare, slang)A petty and obnoxious person.
    “Defiant arselings is what you all are. You think you know best, gallivanting off with pirates?”
    “"Ah, the arselings Leif Kolskeggson and Sterkur death-in-the-eye," Svik said.”

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Etymology

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.

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