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Crooked, askew, awry, diagonal. Mostly used in the South, often to describe a badly made thing. Also reputed to be a bogey-cat used as a threat to prevent the running away of slaves. The "wampus" part gives it an air of "faux Native American" with its similarity to wampum, not unlike mugwump for political fence-sitters, an extinct species.

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