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In the corner opposite to the mirror and placed "catty-corner," as the occupier
worded it, stood the stateliest of beds, upholstered and draped in heavy watered
silk of a dull, even dingy, yellow. Its hangings were gathered at the top into the ...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Today the forms arrived at through folk etymology, catty-corner and kitty-corner,
are the most common. The form cater-corner, the preferred form in most
dictionaries, is less common but not at all rare. The past-participial forms are
more ...
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An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction
KITTY-CORNER (1890) Kitty- in kitty-corner (as in the drug store is kittycorner
from the gas station) is a jocular substitution for or a folk etymology of cater-
corner, through a possible intermediate stage catty-corner. Numerous
compounds have ...
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A Guys' Guide to Anger: A Girls' Guide to Anger
Chapter 7. Mean Girls and Bullies 1. 2. Quoted in Nanci Hellmich, “Caught in the
Catty Corner," USA Today, April 9, 2002, p. D-1. U.S. Department of Education, “
Exploring the Nature and Prevention of Bullying," Ed. gov, November 13, 2007, ...
Hal Marcovitz, Gail Snyder, 2008
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Century illustrated monthly magazine
In the corner opposite to the mirror and placed "catty-corner," as the occupier
worded it, stood the stateliest of beds, upholstered and draped in heavy watered
silk of a dull, even dingy, yellow. Its hangings were gathered at the top into the ...
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The Generation That Saved America: Surviving the Great ...
On that same north side wall was a double bed that set out in the room catty-
corner. Across the room on each side of the door that opened into the hall was a
large oak bureau with drawers on the left and a storage trunk on the right. Like I
said ...
Bettye B. Burkhalter, 2010
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Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
Cater (i.e. catre) is an O.Fr. spelling of Mod.Fr. quatre "four." In M.E., a cater was a
"four-spot," or a playing card with a spot at each corner. At a four- cornered
intersection, the diagonally opposite corners are catercorner, or catty- corner ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... 8 abductor, bunko man catty: 6 cattie, feline; 7 cat-like, cattish catty-corner: 10
catacorner; 11 eater- corner, kitty-corner; 12 cata-cornered; 13 eater-cornered,
catty-cornered, kitty-cornered Caucasian: 5 White; 11 white person; 17
Caucasian ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
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Transcending the Speed of Light: Consciousness, Quantum ...
Each quadrant (such as N + 0 and 0 + S, shown below it) represents two circuits
catty-corner to each other. The North-South pole in quadrant 1 (top left corner to
bottom right corner) starts to reverse itself and appears in 2 as North-South, in 3 ...
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Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook
One geographic test I recently conducted yielded these results: The word cater-
corner, or catty-corner, seems to have come into the American language as an
import, through British English. It describes, say, two corners of a street—which
from ...
10 NOTÍCIAS NAS QUAIS SE INCLUI O TERMO «CATTY-CORNER»
Conheça de que se fala nos meios de comunicação nacionais e internacionais e como se utiliza o termo
catty-corner no contexto das seguintes notícias.
A Michael Graves Classic is Threatened by Store Closing
The shop, which is a block away from the flagship Apple store on Fifth Avenue and catty-corner to Central Park, has changed hands many times ... «Metropolis Magazine, jul 15»
Consider your weekend planned with our new feature
Catty-corner, the performing arts critic. A few desks away, the food critic. On and on it goes, a panacea of experts who report privileged inside ... «Tampabay.com, jul 15»
Behind The Wheel: Cameras capture actions of red-light runners
The red-light camera sits on a white pole near Arby's, which is on southbound Skibo and catty-corner to Burger King. A yellow road sign alerts ... «Fayetteville Observer, jul 15»
True Romance: Matched by computer, they clicked over coffee
“As we got closer, we finally spotted each other catty-corner from an intersection,” says Adam, who has a film degree but has segued from ... «Dallas Morning News, jul 15»
Lawmakers Want Feds To Do Petcoke Impact Study
... Southeast Environmental Taskforce executive director Peggy Salazar ran her hand across the garage door of a house catty-corner from the ... «DNAinfo, jul 15»
St. Thomas Catholic Church to celebrate 70th anniversary
A small mom and pop store sits catty-corner to the church while a city bus stop is located close to the church steps. The unassuming building ... «Brownsville Herald, jun 15»
Foreclosures leave a wake of drugs, squatters, arson
Even so, Wells Fargo gave him a mortgage for $104,000 for a five-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot brick bungalow catty-corner from Sims. «The Detroit News, jun 15»
What to do with Clearwater's Harborview Center?
It's next to Coachman Park and the Clearwater Main Library. It's catty-corner from the Capitol Theatre. The city bought the former Maas Brothers ... «Tampabay.com, jun 15»
Swedish Historical Society to open new cultural center
Thanks to donations the society recently purchased the building catty-corner from its meeting place at the Erlander Home. The new building will ... «WREX-TV, jun 15»
Uber drivers resemble the paperboys of yore
... center-pull brakes, and Campagnola deraileurs, from Wheel Goods on Hennepin Avenue catty-corner from West High School) for $115. «Southernminn.com, jun 15»
