I learned a new word today:

[_ginevra_]

Cattywompous!Chris, one of our hourly workers, and I were meeting up with a postdoc named Jana at her research site. As soon as we got out of the truck, she told us, “You’re bad luck! Go away.” The roof of one of her ~10 ft^2 rainfall manipulation plots was lifted way up at one corner. Just then, another roof rose up off its frame, tumbled into

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[vambot5]

I've never seen it spelled that way, but then I'm not sure how I have seen it spelled.

[geezerlee]

"Cattywampus" is an acceptable alternate, but this source agrees with Rose's spelling.

I think I first heard the term back in my Boy Scout days in Stillwater.