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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. (with to:) located diagonally across from something, especially across an intersection
WordNet 3.0
- adj. slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
Examples
“As I retook my place on the love seat, he sat down near the end of the couch again, kitty-corner from me.”
“His blotchy picture on the front next to sneering Cheney, & under Ann Coulter (he only wishes that were true in real life) and kitty-corner from Bush (obviously in the middle of a lie because his lips are open) was perfection.”
“Mrs. Tennent will sit down on the couch kitty-corner to you, her knees pressed together demurely, the box resting on her lap, her eyes red-rimmed and downcast.”
“The man in the window of the building kitty-corner to the senate building knew Tarsonis City well.”
“I have been watching the locals, the vagabonds, the globe-trotters, and the tourists duck into door frames, eke out asylum under awnings, jump puddles, and dash for metro, just opposite, kitty-corner.”
“Shortly after Mr. Murdoch bought the Journal in 2007, we had a sandwich lunch in our then-offices kitty-corner from Ground Zero.”
“Especially when there are shootings a block away and the man at the grocery store kitty-corner to your apartment sells hard drugs in addition to milk and beer.”
“A villager tells them it's the one kitty-corner from a small mud mosque.”
The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Steps Up Missions Targeting Taliban Leaders
“The hotel, on the corner of Spring and Varrick, is somewhat secluded with a Starbucks across the street and a few storage buildings kitty-corner.”
“It's not a coincidence that two of the largest and oldest producers, Syncrude and Suncor, are located almost kitty-corner from each other across the banks of the Athabasca.”
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EditorMark Kitty-corner is common enough to be considered a regionalism, most common in the Great Lakes states. http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/109 Sep 12, 2011
madmouth so it's an eggcorn? May 29, 2009
bilby Personally I've never heard/read kitty-corner in use.
There's a reference to it on Wikipedia's false etymology page:
"cater-corner became kitty-corner or catty-corner when the original meaning of cater ('four') had become obsolete."
Presumably cater goes back to Latin quattuor. May 29, 2009
madmouth cati-corner is an archaic variant May 29, 2009
mollusque It grows up to be a catty-corner. Jul 11, 2008
inwe1 I use this word alllll the time. no one ever knows what I'm talking about though *sigh* Jul 11, 2008