askew vs kittywampus

askew

adj

  • Untoward, unfavourable. 

  • Turned or twisted to one side. 

adv

  • Tilted to one side. 

kittywampus

adj

  • Synonym of cattywampus (“in disarray”). 

How often have the words askew and kittywampus occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )