catty

catty-corner

Positioned diagonally from someone or something. This phrase can be used as an adverb and an adjective. Primarily heard in US. No, you know Mr. Lewis—his house is catty-corner to ours.

cattywampus

1. Crooked or out of alignment; askew. Your tie is all cattywampus. Here, let me fix it for you.
2. Situated diagonally from someone or something else. No, you know Mr. Jones—his house is cattywampus to ours.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dead-catty

mod. with only a slight bounce. (See the explanation at deadcat bounce. Securities markets.) We expected the stock to go up a lot today, but the increase was no better than dead-catty.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • catty-corner
  • second hand
  • second, third, etc. hand
  • something awful
  • thirdhand
  • make a fist of
  • make a good/bad/etc. fist of (something)
  • whuffo
  • wuffo
  • in vain
References in periodicals archive
As their fate was announced, 55-yearold Catty was unmoved, while her 41-year-old sister Maggie collapsed.
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Catty also helps her reader to evaluate Wroth's open expression of female desire in the creative process, especially in contrast to the silence imposed on living, "virtuous" women who have remained reticent on the topic in earlier works.
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Neglect of traditional patriarchal viewpoints occasionally distorts Catty's perspective.
Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech
The game then involved a player striking the catty on the ground with the doggy and then hitting it again as it flew up into the air.
The rules of catty and doggy
UAE singer, Ahlam, has made a name for herself with her catty online comments , posting snipey tweets and insulting stars on her Facebook wall.
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What may hurt, however, is the barrage of catty comments from online curtain twitchers checking out her home on the internet.
Poor Stella's rough trade
Good on her, I say - it's about time the catty one shut his trap and hid those irritating teeth.
Ice storm Den
It is not the first time he has passed some childish catty remarks against Americans, though this time he didn't describe them as Yanks, as before.
Stick to the news, Bob; YourSay
In December 1880 the pair, originally from Ireland and known to friends as Catty and Maggie, lived in a house in Skirving Street, close to Scotland Road.
Infamous sisters killed for money; THEY became so infamous they had wax effigies in the Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors for almost a century. The Black Widows of Liverpool were experts in murder, as CRIME REPORTER BEN ROSSINGTON repor ts
IT'S almost three years since my beloved Catty vanished into thin air one balmy June night but my heart still aches, because I'll never know what happened and can't put her to rest.
VIEWPOINT: MY SHOUT
Send your answer with your name, address and daytime contact telephone number to: Catty Comp, Wales on Sunday, Thomson House, Havelock Street, Cardiff, CF10 1XR.
Taking the Mike
But never mind, the catty comments make it all a great laugh
WEB LIFE
Catty Jodie, 27, said: "Chantelle thinks she's some kind of star now but you know what - she hasn't got any talent.
Jodie's BB claws are out; BIG BROTHER UNVEILS LATEST TWIST
And like other insider blogs ranging from Defamer to FishBowl, it comes with the requisite catty tone ("'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' conjured up the expected big DVD sales in its first day in stores, but should they have been bigger?")
Web site dishes it up on DVD doings