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kitty corner

kitty corner is the alternative form of kitty-corner.

Meaning of kitty-corner

Adverb

kitty-corner (not comparable)

  1. (Canadian-Prairies, Northern-US) Cater-corner: located diagonally in relation to something, especially across an intersection.
    • Unit #5, kittycorner across the little street from Ennet House, is for catatonics and various vegetablish, fetal-positioned mental patients […].1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 196
    Synonyms:
    catty-corner

Questions about kitty corner

What is kitty corner the alternative form of?
Kitty corner is the alternative form of kitty-corner.

Words near kitty corner in the dictionary

  1. Kitturu
  2. kitty
  3. kitty bar the door
  4. kitty cat
  5. kitty cats
  6. kitty corner
  7. kitty corners
  8. kitty crack
  9. kitty cruise
  10. kitty cruises
  11. kitty door

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kitty corner (page history and authors); kitty-corner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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