Well it just so happens I have sitting here in my list of planned revivalist postings from McCutcheon's "Slang and Everyday Speech" section of his A Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s this little gem:

>catawamptiously chawed up: utterly defeated, badly beaten. An expression largely confined to the South and West, from at least the 1840s on.<

So there must be a relation here. and it sounds like aa apt decriptive to milum's and sjm's Hogwash® experience...catawaptiously chawed up!

'Salright, Connie...I'm not the least kerfuffled that you absquatulated with one of my most looked-forward-to posts...'cause you're some pumpkins! But don't do that no more...'cause, then, someday, somehow, when you least expect it, you just might find yourself catawamptiously chawed up!