Definition of COCKAMAMIE

cockamamie

Plural: cockamamies

Adjective Satellite

  • ludicrous, foolish
    • "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"

Noun

  • A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
  • A foolish or ridiculous person.
  • Ridiculousness; folly; foolish nonsense.

Adj

  • Foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable.
  • Trifling.

Examples

  • Do not give any more cockamamie reasons for failing to complete your assignment.

Origin / Etymology

Possible corruption of French décalcomanie (“process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals”); sometimes erroneously claimed to derive from Yiddish.

Synonyms

cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany, Charlie, Homer Simpson, absurd, alcatote, arsehole, asinine, asshat, asshole, balmy, barmy, bayard, bedaft, berk, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, buffoon, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clart, clown, cockamamie, cockeyed, crackpot, daft, dense, der-brain, derpy, dill pickle, dim bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dopey, dork, dote, dotterel, dull-headed, dull-witted, dullard, dumb, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, duncical, dunderhead, dupe, farcical, fathead, fatuous, fenderhead, fiddle, foolish, fuckwit, full of it, fuzznut, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gauvison, geck, gig, gink, goober, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, idiotic, idle, ignoramus, imbecile, incongruous, inconsistent, insipient, irrational, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, lamebrain, laughable, loony, ludicrous, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, meathead, mong, mookish, moron, mug, muggins, mushhead, naive, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, pillock, pinhead, plonker, prat, preposterous, retard, ridiculous, schmo, schmuck, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, simple, skimble-skamble, slang), slight, slow-witted, snapperhead, soft in the head, softhead, softheaded, sot, sottish, stupid, sucker, thick, thickhead, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twit, unreasonable, unsage, unwise, wally, wantwit, wazzock, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, yampy

Scrabble Score: 22

cockamamie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cockamamie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cockamamie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 26

cockamamie: valid Words With Friends Word