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Examples

  • The farmhouse that Dorothy rode from Kansas through the sky sat on a slight but disorienting angle—or cattywumpus my uncle would call it—doing duty as a funhouse in the Munchkinland section.

    Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001

  • I'm making a personal effort to bring the adjective cattywumpus back in to more prominent use.

    Think Progress 2009

  • Yes, it is, but I've gone and done it anyway.) (Oh, and I'm sorry that link takes you to a static page whose style sheet seems to have gone cattywumpus.

    Akma 2009

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