相关词典网站：ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical:
full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
probably earlier than 1940-45, A in orig. sense, paper strip with an image which could be transferred to the skin when moistened, appar sense “ridiculous” probably by association with , , etc.
UnabridgedBased on the Random House Dictionary, (C) Random House, Inc. 2017.
British Dictionary definitions for
(slang, mainly US) ridiculous or nonsensical: a cockamamie story
C20: in an earlier sense: a paper transfer, prob. a variant of decalcomania
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition (C) William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
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Word Origin and History for
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 ).
Online Etymology Dictionary, (C) 2010 Douglas Harper
Slang definitions & phrases for
cockamamie
C confused: The picture ends with a cockamamie implication that love will conquer all/ this cockamamie little tort
[1920s+ New York C fr New York City dialect, perhaps fr B somehow connect perhaps because decalcomanias as given in candy boxes and chewing-gum packets were used by children for antic self-decoration]
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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