catawampus[ kat-uh-wom-puh s ]Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.adjectiveaskew; awry.positioned diagonally; cater-cornered.adverbdiagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field.as per dictionary dot com…cattywampus is a corruption thereof.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Cattywampus” – One cat beating the H3LL out of the other cat.
LeeCox over 4 years ago
Actually, it means “not lined up or not arranged correctly, or diagonally.”
Imagine over 4 years ago
Ooh, I like this word.
dcdete. over 4 years ago
Aren’t the comic jokes made about words that nobody ever heard of after World War II, the best? I am rolling on the floor laughing.
jagedlo over 4 years ago
“The Real Wampuses of BC Area?” Sounds more interesting than those other “reality” shows!
mrcooncat over 4 years ago
All Wampuses of that gender are catty …
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
And they simply don’t get along with Doggywampuses, no siree! :D
krisannr.thompson over 4 years ago
Like Trump telling the police to DOMINATE the people rather than serve and protect… As if jails aren’t crammed with enough STUPID.
1953Baby over 4 years ago
So. . .is cattywampus the opposite of cattycornered. . .or kitty-cornered. . .or cattercornered? (I’ve seen all three variations. . )
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago
The cattywampus bus was sitting kitty corner from the field where they were having the hootenanny. Yee Haw!!
assrdood over 4 years ago
When something is broken it’s “out of whack”. If repaired, it must be “back in whack”.
ForbesField over 4 years ago
I used to play “Hunt the Wumpus” on my Texas Instruments TI-994a computer. Even when I got close, he never really got particularly catty.
joefearsnothing over 4 years ago
Michael G. over 4 years ago
Talk show, not “reality show”?
RussellRogerBe1 over 4 years ago
catawampus[ kat-uh-wom-puh s ]Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.adjectiveaskew; awry.positioned diagonally; cater-cornered.adverbdiagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field.as per dictionary dot com…cattywampus is a corruption thereof.
cuzinron47 over 4 years ago
A sassy wampus.
Neat '33 over 4 years ago
When playing Junior Varsity football in 1960, when one of our defense guys laid one helluva hit on their guy, we said he was “slobberknockered” !