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 Wordcockamamie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cockamamie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary