kittywumpus

kittywumpus

English

Adjective

kittywumpus (comparative more kittywumpus, superlative most kittywumpus)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of kittywampus (“cattywampus: in disarray”).
   • 1989, Celeste West, Elsa Gidlow, A lesbian love advisor (→ISBN):

     [...] organizing its changing processes into somewhat predictable evolutionary states or "passages" can increase equanimity, if not totally eliminate the inchoate helplessness we feel as a relationship goes kittywumpus.

   • 1992, Western American Literature:

     Take, for instance, "Jasper," an untypically short poem: Jasper Crazy Woman's face had been split with an ax, then put back together kittywumpus.

   • 1996, Stephen L. Nelson, Field Guide to PCs (→ISBN):

     Pause: When information is gliding across the screen so quickly that you can't read it, press Pause. What's on the screen will lock in place until you press Pause again, at which time everything will go kittywumpus (that is, start gliding across the screen again).