Talk:kittywumpus

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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 (deprecated template usage) 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 catawampus. Can anyone verify this? Also, where are the "askew" and "catercorner" senses? (present currently in (deprecated template usage) cattywampus, and (deprecated template usage) 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. — This unsigned comment was added by 24.220.142.118 (talk) at 23:50, April 24, 2013.

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 catawampus- but there's nothing useable in this version, so I deleted it. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:41, 25 April 2013 (UTC)