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kittycorner

kittycorner 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 kittycorner

What is kittycorner the alternative form of?
Kittycorner is the alternative form of kitty-corner.

Words near kittycorner in the dictionary

  1. kitty-corner
  2. kitty-cornered
  3. Kittybrewster
  4. kittycat
  5. kittycats
  6. kittycorner
  7. kittycorners
  8. kittysol
  9. kittysoll
  10. kittysolls
  11. kittysols

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kittycorner (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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