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arselong

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Adv — (informal) Backwards, or falling on one's bottom.

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An alteration, modelled on headlong, of arseling, from Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”); equivalent to arse + -ling. It is cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings and German ärschling, ärschlings.

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