Talk:kittywumpus

kittywompus
Is this a US word? (similar to US catercorner and variations) SemperBlotto 08:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. Southern, I believe.  --Connel MacKenzie 11:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Is it a cutesy variant of catawampus:? —Ruakh TALK 01:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Whoops. I'm not sure this spelling can be attested.  (As per Ruakh's clarification.)  Searching groups.google.com seems to return items related to the website with this spelling.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:21, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

But I'm sure I've never heard of the "bogeyman" sense at. Can anyone verify this? Also, where are the "askew" and "catercorner" senses? (present currently in cattywampus:, and kittywompus: for that matter. -- Thisis0 22:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Kittywumpus has been in our families dialect for 50+ years. My parents grew up in western Colorado. In fact as a young girl I can remember my grandparents and great grandparents using this word to describe slanted, tilted, not straight, not in alignment with other things. Today I see we all have the same definition but no one considers it a word. Might want to think about identifying it as a word as it has continued to be passed through the generations.
 * I removed this from the entry page. I suspect that there are now enough examples of its use to justify bringing it back, probably as an alternative form of - but there's nothing useable in this version, so I deleted it. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:41, 25 April 2013 (UTC)