- catercornered
- I. see catercorner II. adverb or adjective see kitty-corner
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
catercornered
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catercornered — catercorˈner or catercorˈnered adjective (also catty corˈner or catty corˈnered) diagonal (also adverb) • • • Main Entry: ↑cater … Useful english dictionary
catercorner — or catercornered variant of kitty corner … New Collegiate Dictionary
kitty-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… … New Collegiate Dictionary
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom — This is a list of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom.* Words with specific American meanings that have different meanings in British English and/or additional meanings common to both dialects (e.g. pants , crib ) are to be found … Wikipedia
across — Synonyms and related words: across the grain, against, astraddle, astride, athwart, athwartships, bendwise, beyond, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, confronting, contrariwise, contrawise, crisscross, cross, cross grained,… … Moby Thesaurus
athwart — Synonyms and related words: across, across the grain, adverse to, against, against the grain, against the tide, against the wind, at cross purposes, at cross purposes with, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war with … Moby Thesaurus
bias — Synonyms and related words: a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, across, affect, affinity, angle, angle off, animus, aptitude, aptness, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bag, bear off, bend, bend to, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, biased, biaswise … Moby Thesaurus
biased — Synonyms and related words: across, antiblack, aslant, aslope, athwart, atilt, bendwise, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biaswise, canting, careening, catercorner, catercornered, chauvinistic, colored, cooked, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, disposed … Moby Thesaurus
catercorner — Synonyms and related words: across, athwart, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, catercornered, catercornerways, cornerways, cornerwise, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, diagonally, diagonalwise, kittycorner, on the bias, slant, thwart, transverse … Moby Thesaurus
cattycorner — Synonyms and related words: across, athwart, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, catercornerways, cornerways, cornerwise, crossways, crosswise, diagonal, diagonally, diagonalwise, kittycorner, on the bias, slant, thwart … Moby Thesaurus
