Definitions
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- adverb US, Canada (with to:) located
diagonally across from something, especially across anintersection
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have been watching the locals, the vagabonds, the globe-trotters, and the tourists duck into door frames, eke out asylum under awnings, jump puddles, and dash for metro, just opposite, kitty-corner.
Alps 2010
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Shortly after Mr. Murdoch bought the Journal in 2007, we had a sandwich lunch in our then-offices kitty-corner from Ground Zero.
The Murdoch Empire: An Inside View Robert L. Pollock 2011
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Mrs. Tennent will sit down on the couch kitty-corner to you, her knees pressed together demurely, the box resting on her lap, her eyes red-rimmed and downcast.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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I have been watching the locals, the vagabonds, the globe-trotters, and the tourists duck into door frames, eke out asylum under awnings, jump puddles, and dash for metro, just opposite, kitty-corner.
Cafés 2010
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Mrs. Tennent will sit down on the couch kitty-corner to you, her knees pressed together demurely, the box resting on her lap, her eyes red-rimmed and downcast.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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The man in the window of the building kitty-corner to the senate building knew Tarsonis City well.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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As I retook my place on the love seat, he sat down near the end of the couch again, kitty-corner from me.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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As I retook my place on the love seat, he sat down near the end of the couch again, kitty-corner from me.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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His blotchy picture on the front next to sneering Cheney, & under Ann Coulter (he only wishes that were true in real life) and kitty-corner from Bush (obviously in the middle of a lie because his lips are open) was perfection.
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The man in the window of the building kitty-corner to the senate building knew Tarsonis City well.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
inwe1 commented on the word kitty-corner
I use this word alllll the time. no one ever knows what I'm talking about though *sigh*
July 11, 2008
mollusque commented on the word kitty-corner
It grows up to be a catty-corner.
July 11, 2008
madmouth commented on the word kitty-corner
cati-corner is an archaic variant
May 29, 2009
bilby commented on the word kitty-corner
Personally I've never heard/read kitty-corner in use.
There's a reference to it on Wikipedia's false etymology page:
"cater-corner became kitty-corner or catty-corner when the original meaning of cater ('four') had become obsolete."
Presumably cater goes back to Latin quattuor.
May 29, 2009
madmouth commented on the word kitty-corner
so it's an eggcorn?
May 29, 2009
EditorMark commented on the word kitty-corner
Kitty-corner is common enough to be considered a regionalism, most common in the Great Lakes states. http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/109
September 12, 2011