"Cattywampus" or "catterwampus" (or "kittywampus")?

[Recursion]

I have apparently started a flame war on Facebook by asking this, so I turn to the Lounge as the only sober, mature, reflective deliberative body left in the world.

(For people from north of Philly or so: yes, people really say it. It's different from "kitty-corner", which just means diagonally opposite; cattywampus/catterwampus means flopped down in the middle of the floor, possibly drunkenly.)

"Kittywampus" is wrong, but I'm including it anyways to weed out the bad answers.

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[Ptah]

1. askew

[OriginalGeek]

8. Just reubin it in

[frogmarch]

2. I've never used any of them, but

here in western Nebraska I've always heard it said "kittywampus."

Oh, and I've always heard "catty-corner" more often than "kitty-corner."

Speaking of cats, I say "catsup" instead of "ketchup," but I don't recall who else around these here parts do.

[LiberalEsto]

3. I generally use "flopped down in the middle of the floor, possibly drunkenly"

Never heard of cattywampus or its variations. Grew up in northern NJ.

Alternate term: wasted

[rug]

4. Grew up in NYC, never heard it.

We just said shit-faced.

[Throd]

5. Scaddywampus

My dad is a Hoosier and my mom is from SoCal. I learned it as "Scaddywampus"

[nolabear]

6. Caddywampas, absolutely.

"His eyes stared off all caddywampas."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Caddywampus or Cattywampus

But I thought it just meant 'out of alignment'