English Explanatory Dictionary

cockamamy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. foolish, silly
  2. trifling

Word forms

cockamamy more cockamamy most cockamamy cockamamie

Etymology

From Cockamamie (a marketing term for a child's rub-on tattoo), a deliberate mispronunciation of decalcomania.

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