up-and-down

See also: up and down

English

Adjective

up-and-down (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of up and down (in various senses)
    • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
      They were men; and they were fighting; savage, desperate, up-and-down fighting, such as Tom had seen too many times before.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
      As I entered the room, the fire [...] flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
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