widdershins

adverb /ˈwɪ.də.ʃɪnz/

1. Anticlockwise, counter-clockwise.

   archaic

   It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church.

2. The wrong way.

Where it comes from

First use appears c. 1513, from Middle Low German weddersins (also wēder-, -sinnes), from wed(d)der- (“wither-, against, opposite”) + genitive of sin (“direction, way”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry widdershins (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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