In another thread we discussed that "made" is "edam" backwards. Is there a word for that? Are there other similar words?

There is a word for it, but I'm blowed if I can remember what it is!

Yob is a good example of a word that was originally coined as "boy" backwards and has now moved into common usage (on this side of the pond, anyway!).

Ros

The unit of resistance to electrical flow is the "ohm".
Reciprocally,
the unit of conductance of electrical flow is the "mho".

Spelled backwards,
Ukiah is Haiku

Pre-1960s London gayspeak (palare?) had secret words for many things - bona for good, vada for face, etc - and lots of that was backslang. I think drag, for clothes, was garb backwards.

I read of this sort of word being identified as an "semordnilap," an ugly coinage coming from spelling "palindromes" backwards. A google search turns up 395 hits but the 15 or so I checked were just about palindromes.

Permit me to suggest the term "backwords."

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I think drag, for clothes, was garb backwards.

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Huh? That would make the word "brag".

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CJ wrote:
Permit me to suggest the term "backwords."

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It's a lot better than "drawcab" ..... or is it ??

"Sdrawkcab is backwards backwards." - Paul Bickart, 1958, quoting I-don't-know-whom.