catawampus vs sidewards

catawampus

adv

  • Diagonally. 

  • Utterly. 

adj

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

  • Fierce, destructive. 

noun

  • A fierce imaginary animal, a bogeyman. 

sidewards

adv

  • Toward a side. 

adj

  • Toward a side. 

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