• arselings,arselong

FromMiddle English*arsling, fromOld Englishearsling(“backwards, on the back”), equivalent toarse +‎-ling. Cognate withDutchaarzeling,aarzelings,Germanärschling,ärschlings.

arseling (notcomparable)

1. (UKdialectal, especiallyScotland,East Anglia)Backwards.

• Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “ARSELING”, inThe English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumeI (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to theEnglish Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.:G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons,→OCLC.

• aligners,salering,lasering,seringal,engrails,resignal,sanglier,slangier,signaler,Salinger,inlarges,nargiles,realigns,seal ring