Cattywampus

Not lined up evenly on both sides.

Your bedspread is cattywampus

by Dr. Cattywampus July 9, 2016

Cattywampus

A uneven or messed up object normally used by the southern states

Hey... Look at Johns new truck the finder on its kinda cattywampus

by Cattywampus human April 13, 2020

cattywampus

Not exactly centered or straight

The picture frame is cattywampus on the wall.

by Jo Gutierrez September 5, 2003

cattywampus

see also: awry, askew, out-of-sorts

things seems a bit cattywampus as of late.

by www.joerandazzo.com September 8, 2003

Cattywampus

Going badly, awkwardly, or in the wrong direction:

Tricia couldn't settle down and study because her thoughts were all cattywampus

by YourUrbanPerson March 4, 2022

cattywampus

crazy, chaotic

If things get cattywampus just call me.

by Whisper August 10, 2003

cattywampus

ADV. Performed in a non-straightforward manner; approached from an unexpected angle; askew; askance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a poet and philosopher whose idea of the "Oversoul" may prefigure contemporary astrophysicists' notion that "all matter is is made up of the same elements and energies and governed by the same laws" because the universe proceeds from a Big Bang. "Poets may go at the big truths a little cattywampus, but sometimes they do get to them" (Ted Kooser, _The Poetry Home Repair Manual_, University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 141)

by mecr July 7, 2012