upsot
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]upsot
- (poetic, nonstandard) simple past and past participle of upset
- 1857, James Lord Pierpont, Jingle Bells:
- He got into a drifted bank
And we—we got upsot.
Usage notes
[edit]- A 19th century contrivance to add rhyme and wit, likely intended as a parody of southern U.S. dialect.