Skewampus

I was at my boyfriend's grandpa's house and his grandpa said that something was "skewampus." My boyfriend and his brother laughed at that and were joking about it on the way home. I have grown up hearing that phrase, but have not heard it from very many people (my co-worker from Utah and this elderly man from Utah), so I decided to look it up. I found out that it is a mixture of the words askew and cattywampus. One source said that it was frequently used in the West which makes sense with my experience of it.