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adverb Chiefly Scot.
clockwise or in a direction following the apparent course of the sun: considered as lucky or auspicious.
Compare withershins.
Origin:
1765–75; < Scots Gaelic, Irish deiseal, MIr dessel, equivalent to dess right, south + sel turn, time; opposed in Ir to túaithbel
1765–75; < Scots Gaelic, Irish deiseal, MIr dessel, equivalent to dess right, south + sel turn, time; opposed in Ir to túaithbel
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Deasil
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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deasil
"rightwise, turned toward the right," 1771, from Gael. deiseil (adj. and adv.), from deas "right hand, south," cognate with O.Ir. dess, Welsh dehau, and ultimately with L. dexter (see dexterity). The second element of the Gaelic word is not explained.
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