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Catawampus, meaning “askew, diagonal,” is first recorded in the 1830–40s. Originally, catawampus also meant “fierce.” It’s thought to be an American colloquialism influenced by the cater- in cater-cornered (or for many of us, kitty-corner) and wampish, Scottish for “flopping about.”
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23 cze 2024 · catawampus (comparative more catawampus, superlative most catawampus) Diagonally. Utterly.
1. askew; awry. 2. positioned diagonally; cater-cornered. adverb. 3. diagonally; obliquely. We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field. Also: cattywampus. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin.
Dialect Terms positioned diagonally; cater-cornered. adv. Dialect Terms diagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field. Also, cattywampus.
Definitions from Wiktionary (catawampus) adjective: (US) Out of alignment, in disarray or disorder: crooked, askew. adverb: (US) Diagonally. adverb: (US) Utterly. noun: (US) A fierce imaginary animal, a bogeyman. adjective: (US) Fierce, destructive.
CATAWAMPUS meaning: 1. going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong direction: 2. going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong…. Learn more.
diagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field. Origin: 1830–40 for earlier sense “utterly”; cata- diagonally (see cater- cornered) + -wampus, perh. akin to wampish
