Crossword clues for cockamamie
cockamamie
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
American English slang word attested by 1946, popularized c.1960, but said to be New York City children's slang from mid-1920s; perhaps an alteration of decalcomania (see decal).
Wiktionary
a. 1 foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable. 2 trifling. n. 1 (context US chiefly dated English) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface. 2 A foolish or ridiculous person.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Cockamamie is the debut album from Boston-based musician Jen Trynin. Released in 1995 to generally positive acclaim, the album failed to do well on the charts.
The story of how this album came to be and the process regarding its release on Warner Bros. Records is chronicled in Trynin's 2006 book Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be.
Usage examples of "cockamamie".
We'd gone off chasing some cockamamie idea of me being Skandic, a child of an island two week's sail from the South, but that was done now.
Trout said, "I would never have gotten around to calling attention to things that really matter: irresistible forces in nature, and cruel inventions, and cockamamie ideals and governments and economies that make heroes and heroines alike feel like something the cat drug in.
It was not published in the United States until 1994, seven years after my return from the distant past, when the American government grudgingly lifted the lid on the White Sphinx Project and acknowledged officially that my cockamamie stories about visiting the Pleistocene as an Air Force chrononaut were not cockamamie after all.
Please tell me you're not deciding to go off on one of those cockamamie Vision Quest scams yourself!
I thought about my conversation with Iona Mathis, wondering how she'd come up with that cockamamie notion that I'd made a deal with Pudgie to get him out of jail.
If it hadn't been for him and that cockamamie will he had you draw up, I wouldn't have been back here.
But after only a couple of weeks, she'd come up with every cockamamie reason you could imagine why she couldn't keep it up—the midwives were all stupid slatterns, know-it-alls, impossibly superstitious, religious fanatics, there was too much of a language barrier, they all were filthy and the stench of a roomful of them gagged her.
She had had Nells Borson of the Cockamamies, all of the Hindenburgh Seven and what she needed, really needed, all she needed, was Maggot.
But after only a couple of weeks, she'd come up with every cockamamie reason you could imagine why she couldn't keep it upthe midwives were all stupid slatterns, know-it-alls, impossibly superstitious, religious fanatics, there was too much of a language barrier, they all were filthy and the stench of a roomful of them gagged her, and on and on ad infinitum, ad nauseam.