Catawampus means askew, crooked, or diagonally positioned.
Catawampus significa torto, inclinado ou posicionado diagonalmente.
| Front | catawampus \kat-uh-WOM-puhs\ |
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| Back | adjective 1. Askew; crooked. 2. Diagonally positioned: catercornered. [From cater (diagonally), from French word quatre (four). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwetwer- (four), which also gave us four, square, cadre, quadrant, quarantine (literally, period of forty days). Earliest documented use: 1840. The word is also spelled as cattywampus.] "Have you noticed that life seems a bit catawampus lately?" |
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