Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Variants of cater-cornered.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A corruption of cater-cornered.
Wiktionary
- adj. US Catercorner.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
Etymologies
- Corruption of cater-corner, (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He kitty-cornered the intersection and pulled up alongside her.”
“With the chicken, Billy's mother served "kitty-cornered" sandwiches of brown bread filled with cream cheese and chopped nuts.”
“The invitations were folded kitty-cornered and inside of each appeared”
“n' down and kitty-cornered crossways, 'n' if I keep on gettin 'poor,”
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chained_bear He's still a condescending prick though. Why would you say something like "Look at Google. Google's results must be right!"? Oct 7, 2007
abraxaszugzwang Yes! I completely agree. Sep 21, 2007
reesetee Let's call the whole thing off. ;-) Sep 21, 2007
trivet I say catty-corner and kitty-cornered... Sep 20, 2007
oroboros Also: catercorner. Sep 20, 2007
reesetee Eesh. You tell 'em, Abraxas. :-)
And anyway, around here I've always heard it without the "ed" at the end, whichever version is used. So it also depends on where you are. Sep 20, 2007
abraxaszugzwang Had a disagreement at work today over whether it's catty or kitty-cornered. He argues that since definition sites come up on google when catty-cornered is entered, catty must be correct. But I pointed out that kitty-cornered has 100,000 some odd more results, meaning it's more popular. He tried pulling argumentum ad populum saying that a lot of people using a word doesn't make it a word. He cited the OED as an authority on language.
Language evolves. Numbers matter. Condesceding prick. Sep 20, 2007