widdershins
/ˈwɪdəʃɪnz
/(also withershins)
adverb chiefly Scottish
In a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise: she danced widdershins around him...
- These are all created by either a single point of applied pressure or a combination of pressure and motion (back and forwards within track, clockwise, withershins).
- ‘Watch and learn,’ his friend replies enigmatically, before changing the clockwise finger-spin to widdershins.
- Lets face it; I was not trapped inside a rickety old church with the dog running widdershins about it so I think I am safe.
Origin
Early 16th century: from Middle Low German weddersins, from Middle High German widersinnes, from wider 'against' + sin 'direction'; the second element was associated with Scots sin 'sun'.
- looking-glass writing
- looking in
- looking on
- looking over
- looking to
- lookism
- lookist
- lookit
- look kindly on
- look like a bomb's hit it
- look like something the cat brought in
- look lively
- look lively (or dated alive)
- look on
- look one's age
- look on the black side
- look on the bright side
- look (or be) slippy
- look (or feel) (like) a million dollars
- look (or glare) daggers at
- look (or hark) who's talking
- look out
- lookout
- Lookout Mountain
- look-over