upsot

upsot

1. (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.

• A 19th-century invention to add rhyme and wit, likely intended as a parody of southern U.S. dialect.

upsot (comparative more upsot, superlative most upsot)

1. (US, dialect, nonstandard) Upset.
   • 1888, Patience Stapleton, Kady (page 206)

     I didn't mean ter, but I was so upsot, the pictures is gone, I met a party from the Springs a-going, an' they was quicker nor me an' took 'em — they was frens of mine.

• POTUS, Toups, USPTO, pouts, putos, spout, stoup, tupos