catawampus vs cattywampus

catawampus

• Out of alignment, in disarray or disorder: crooked, askew. 

• Fierce, destructive. 

• A fierce imaginary animal, a bogeyman. 

• Diagonally. 

• Utterly. 

cattywampus

• Synonym of cater-corner (“diagonal to, not directly across from nor adjacent to”). 

• Synonym of catawampus (“askew”).