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kitty-cornered

or kit·ty-cor·ner

[kit-ee-kawr-nerd]
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adjective, adverb Chiefly Northern and Western U.S.

cater-cornered.

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RELATED WORDS

crosswise, bevel, oblique, cross, bias, crossways, askew, biased, slanting, transverse, beveled, transversal, cater-cornered, catty-cornered, skewing

Origin of kitty-cornered

First recorded in 1885–90
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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Historical Examples of kitty-cornered

  • He kitty-cornered the intersection and pulled up alongside her.

    The Servant Problem

    Robert F. Young

British Dictionary definitions for kitty-cornered

kitty-cornered

adjective

a variant of cater-cornered
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