kitty-corner
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See also: kittycorner and kitty corner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A variant of cater-corner influenced by cat and kitty.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]kitty-corner (not comparable)
- (Northern US, Canadian Prairies) Cater-corner: located diagonally in relation to something, especially across an intersection. [from 19th c.]
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 196:
- Unit #5, kittycorner across the little street from Ennet House, is for catatonics and various vegetablish, fetal-positioned mental patients […] .
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[edit]References
[edit]- Frederic G[omes] Cassidy, editor (1985), “kitty-corner”, in Dictionary of American Regional English, volumes I (Introduction and A–C), Cambridge, Mass., London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN.