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  • Peace, prosperity, and the harmony of nations have been and are being damaged even as these words are written in the name of some wampus/wumpus from the deranged minds who hear THE voices inside their head.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Allah in Paradise 2009

  • Peace, prosperity, and the harmony of nations have been and are being damaged even as these words are written in the name of some wampus/wumpus from the deranged minds who hear THE voices inside their head.

    Deities in Paradise 2009

  • I mean it -- the lightning zapped my -- my nerves just went all catty wampus (ph) and no, I don't remember a thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007 2007

  • I mean it -- the lightning zapped my -- my nerves just went all catty wampus (ph) and no, I don't remember a thing.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2007 2007

  • According to the Associated Press Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials say this derailment has blocked -- you can barely see it there, but you can sort of see that the cars are certainly kitty - wampus if you will.

    CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007 2007

  • Course, you may come from a faroff planet where they got no idea what the heck a wampus is nor how high off the ground it's hind end is.

    Galaxy Jane Goulart, Ron, 1933- 1986

  • Already this evening you have called it a bus, a boat, a kite, a star-hound, a wagon, an aerial flivver, a sky-chariot, a space-eating wampus, and I don't know what else.

    The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922

  • I also had the pneumonia, and de bronchitis, and de measles, and de small-pox, and the cholly-wampus -- all at the same time.

    Brave Tom The Battle That Won Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • One such beast of the Alabama Wiregrass was the wampus cat.

    Paste Magazine 2010

  • No adult I knew could ever really describe a wampus cat, but an active and fevered imagination could fill in the blanks after a storyteller mentioned it had "eyes as big as headlights."

    Paste Magazine 2010

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  • A stupid, dull, loutish clod.

    August 11, 2018