{"id":3088,"date":"2015-01-15T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2015-01-15T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:31:56","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-cattywampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-cattywampus\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Cattywampus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What does cattywampus<\/em>\u00a0mean?<\/p>\n

It is an adjective and an adverb and means\u00a0askew or awry;\u00a0positioned\u00a0diagonally or cater-cornered.<\/p>\n

How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

kat\u2032\u0259 w\u00e4m\u2032<\/strong>p\u0259s<\/p>\n

or<\/p>\n[kat-ee-wom-puh\u00a0s]\n

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Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long ago English gamblers called the four-dotted side of a die\u00a0cater<\/em>\u00a0(from the French\u00a0quatre<\/em>, “four”). The placement of those four dots suggested two diagonal lines, which is likely how\u00a0cater<\/em>\u00a0came to mean (dialectally, anyway) “to place, move, or cut across diagonally.”<\/p>\n

Catercorner<\/em>\u00a0(later\u00a0kitty-corner<\/em>) and\u00a0caterwampus<\/em>\u00a0\u2013and eventually\u00a0cattywampus<\/em>\u00a0\u2013followed.<\/p>\n

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How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Measure carefully before cutting, or the entire building will be cattywampus.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

City hall is cattywampus <\/i>to the post office.<\/p>\n

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