kitty-cornered

adj

kitty-cornered

adj

Etymology Corruption of cater-corner.

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US Synonym of kitty-corner (“cater-corner”).

He’s king of all these wigged men sitting with their hosed legs kitty-cornered under their desks.1987, Martha Barron Barrett, God’s Country, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 67:

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