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Antipodean, a. and n.|ænˌtɪpəˈdiːən|
[irreg. f. antipode-s + -an; perh. after European, but not analogous, a better form being the obs. antipodian.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the opposite side of the world; esp. Australasian.
1861Sala Twice round Clock 35 Antipodean legislators have a refreshment room they call ‘Bellamy's.’ 1877Heath Fern W. Introd. 4 The antipodean range of the Fern World.
2. humorously, Having everything upside down.
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. (1853) 621 A kind of Antipodean lumber room, full of old chairs and tables, upside down.
3. fig. Of or pertaining to direct opposition; diametrically opposed (to).
1651Biggs New Disp. Summ., All the medicines of the shops in Antipodæan position to our bodies. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man I. ii. 32 We were Antipodean in all our tastes. 1881Scribn. Month. XXII. 97 The writer who..is most antipodean to Mr. Carlyle.
B. n. In the senses of the adj.
1640R. Brome Antipodes ii. iv. sig. E 3v, Per. And what are those? Doct. All Antipodeans. 1890Athenæum 22 Feb. 239/2 The ‘antipodeans’—the jugglers who work with their legs. 1890A. P. Morton tr. H. Le Roux's Acrobats & Mountebanks ix. 222 He..rarely leaves the ‘carpet’; he is a juggler or an antipodean. Ibid. 225 The crural muscles attain an extraordinary expansion and strength in the antipodeans. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. iv. 942 They were moral antipodeans to the magistrate or the legislator or the social reformer. 1921Glasgow Herald 21 Jan. 8 The Englishmen..are probably slightly weaker in Australia than the best side the Antipodeans can put on the field. |