cater-cornered
51kʷetwer- — Four. Derivatives include four, squad, quarantine, and farthing. I. O grade form *kʷetwor . 1. a. four, from Old English fēower, four; b …
52antigodlin — /an ti god lin/, adj. Southern and Western U.S. 1. lopsided or at an angle; out of alignment. 2. diagonal or cater cornered. Also, antigoglin /an ti gog lin/. [1895 1900; perh. ANTI + gogglin, repr. prp. of Brit. dial. goggle to shake, tremble;… …
53kitty-corner — adjective & adverb N. Amer. another term for cater cornered …
54oblique — adjective 1) an oblique line Syn: slanting, slanted, sloping, at an angle, angled, diagonal, aslant, slant, slantwise, skew, askew, cater cornered, kitty corner Ant: straight …
55oblique — [adj1] slanting; at an angle angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry, bent, cater cornered, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining, leaning, on the bias, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping …
56crosswise, crossways — ▶ adverb DIAGONALLY, obliquely, transversely, aslant, cornerwise, at an angle, on the bias; N. Amer. cater cornered, kitty corner …
57catacornered — see cater cornered adv. and a …
58kitty-corner — also catty corner or catercorner or kitty cornered or catty cornered or catercornered adverb or adjective Etymology: kitty corner alteration of cater corner, from obsolete cater four + corner Date: 1838 in a diagonal or oblique position < the… …
59catawampus — also catawampous, cattywampus, catiwampus, etc. (see Dictionary of American Slang for more), American colloquial. First element perhaps from obsolete cater to set or move diagonally (see CATTY CORNERED (Cf. catty cornered)); second element… …
60France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
