Catty-cornered

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  catty-corner \catty-corner\ catty-cornered \catty-cornered\adj.
     1. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
  
     Syn: bias, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner,
          cater-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered,
          oblique, skew, skewed, slanted.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  catty-cornered
       adj : slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a
             catty-corner direction across the vacant lot" [syn: {catacorner},
              {cata-cornered}, {catercorner}, {cater-cornered}, {catty-corner},
              {kitty-corner}, {kitty-cornered}]