withershins
Multiple Entries:withershins widdershins
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
withershins /ˈwɪðəʃɪnz/
▶adverb variant spelling of widdershins.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
widdershins /ˈwɪdəʃɪnz/ (also withershins)
▶adverb chiefly Scottish in a direction contrary to the sun's course (or anticlockwise), considered as unlucky.
– origin C16: from Mid. Low Ger. weddersins, from Mid. High Ger. widersinnes, from wider ‘against’ + sin ‘direction’; second elem. assoc. with Scots sin ‘sun’.
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