{"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":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 14.4444446563721px; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/85\/76\/7d\/85767dc46ce1e1ba9aef75a7781e6324.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What does c<em>attywampus<\/em>\u00a0mean?<\/p>\n<p>It is an adjective and an adverb and means\u00a0askew or awry;\u00a0positioned\u00a0diagonally or cater-cornered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>kat\u2032\u0259 w\u00e4m<strong>\u2032<\/strong>p\u0259s<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n[kat-ee-wom-puh\u00a0s]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rollthedice.setgetgo.com\/rollthedice.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long ago English gamblers called the four-dotted side of a die\u00a0<em>cater<\/em>\u00a0(from the French\u00a0<em>quatre<\/em>, &#8220;four&#8221;). The placement of those four dots suggested two diagonal lines, which is likely how\u00a0<em>cater<\/em>\u00a0came to mean (dialectally, anyway) &#8220;to place, move, or cut across diagonally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Catercorner<\/em>\u00a0(later\u00a0<em>kitty-corner<\/em>) and\u00a0<em>caterwampus<\/em>\u00a0\u2013and eventually\u00a0<em>cattywampus<\/em>\u00a0\u2013followed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FObMdWpx_C0\/T-kM4LwvF3I\/AAAAAAAAAJ0\/4nZ4FmihKBA\/s1600\/IMG_0518.JPG\" width=\"381\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Measure carefully before cutting, or the entire building will be<i> cattywampus.<\/i><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>City hall is<i> cattywampus <\/i>to the post office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does cattywampus\u00a0mean? It is an adjective and an adverb &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1249,1250,1252,1253,1255,1248,1256,182,234,199,476,1212,1254,166,1251],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-askew","tag-awry","tag-cater-cornered","tag-catercorner","tag-caterwampus","tag-cattywampus","tag-english","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-interesting-word","tag-january-2015","tag-kitty-corner","tag-learn","tag-positioned-diagonally","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}