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单词 cockamamie
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cockamamien.adj.

Brit. /ˌkɒkəˈmeɪmi/, U.S. /ˈkɑkəˌmeɪmi/
Forms:

α. 1900s– cockamainie, 1900s– cockamanee, 1900s– cockamaney, 1900s– cockamanie, 1900s– cockamanney, 1900s– cockamannie, 1900s– cockamanny, 1900s– cockamany, 1900s– cockaminy, 1900s– cockomainie, 1900s– cockomainy, 1900s– kakamanie, 1900s– kockamanny, 2000s– cocamainy, 2000s– cocamanee, 2000s– cocamaney, 2000s– cocamanie, 2000s– cocamanney, 2000s– cocamannie, 2000s– cocamany, 2000s– cockamainee, 2000s– cockamainey, 2000s– cockamainy, 2000s– cockaminee, 2000s– cockaminey, 2000s– cockaminie, 2000s– cockaminnie, 2000s– cockaminny, 2000s– cockomaney, 2000s– cockomanie, 2000s– cockomany, 2000s– cocomainy, 2000s– kakamainy, 2000s– kakamanny, 2000s– kokamaney, 2000s– kokamanie, 2000s– kokamany.

β. 1900s– cocamamee, 1900s– cocamamie, 1900s– cocamamy, 1900s– cockamaimy, 1900s– cockamamee, 1900s– cockamamey, 1900s– cockamamie, 1900s– cockamammie, 1900s– cockamammy, 1900s– cockamamy, 1900s– cockamimy, 1900s– cockomaimie, 1900s– cockomamie, 1900s– cockomamy, 1900s– cokomamie, 1900s– kackamamie, 1900s– kakamamie, 1900s– kockamamey, 1900s– kockamamie, 2000s– cocamaimee, 2000s– cocamaimey, 2000s– cocamaimie, 2000s– cocamaimy, 2000s– cocamamey, 2000s– cocamammey, 2000s– cocamammie, 2000s– cocamammy, 2000s– cocamimy, 2000s– cockamaimey, 2000s– cockamammee, 2000s– cockamammey, 2000s– cockamimee, 2000s– cockamimey, 2000s– cockamimie, 2000s– cockomaimee, 2000s– cockomaimy, 2000s– cockomamee, 2000s– cockomamey, 2000s– cockomammy, 2000s– cocomamie, 2000s– kackamamee, 2000s– kackamamey, 2000s– kackamamy, 2000s– kakamaimee, 2000s– kakamaimey, 2000s– kakamaimie, 2000s– kakamamee, 2000s– kakamamey, 2000s– kakamammy, 2000s– kockamaimy, 2000s– kockamamee, 2000s– kockamammie, 2000s– kockamamy, 2000s– kokamamee, 2000s– kokamamie, 2000s– kokamammie, 2000s– kokamamy.

γ. rare 2000s– cockananey, 2000s– cockanany, 2000s– cockaninnie, 2000s– cockaninny.

Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: decalcomania n.
Etymology: Apparently an arbitrary alteration of decalcomania n.With the absence of the initial syllable of decalcomania n. in this word, compare Spanish calcomanía (1884; < calcar to trace (see calcate v.) + -manía -mania comb. form, after French décalcomanie decalcomania n.), which is occasionally borrowed into English:1889 Ceramics in Catalonia in Rep. Consuls U.S. Jan. 24 Sometimes two or more of these methods are used in combination with calcomania in a way to produce a showy and cheap article.Compare also similarly formed Italian calcomania (1905). With the form of the final syllable, compare French décalcomanie and the English forms in -ie cited at decalcomania n. Compare also form calcomanie, in an apparently isolated attestation:1869 Canad. Almanac 1 Jan. 372 A new and useful mode of decorative painting, which he calls ‘Calcomanie.’
colloquial.
A. n.
1. U.S. (originally Children's slang). A decal or transfer; esp. one applied to the skin as a temporary tattoo.
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1931 A. Kober in New Yorker 24 Oct. 73/1 Then there were ‘cockamanies’, painted strips of paper you applied to your wrist, and rubbed with spit until the image was transferred to your hand.
1934 H. Roth Call it Sleep iv. ii. 367 If it wuz a nickel..I could buy fuh two cends cockamamies an' pud em on mine hull arm. An' den fuh t'ree cends I'll go to duh movies.
1964 R. Gehman That Kid 70 I got my glasses, my cockamamies, my licorice babies, my Tillie and Mac books... Let's go!
1990 N. Harris Trumpets of Silver xlvi. 270 When they first moved to the apartment, Anya made the kitchen pretty by pasting cockamamies on the closets and icebox.
1998 J. S. Powell Nostradamus Prophecy 13 You sure you gonna pay me fifteen hundred bucks for dese cockamamies?
2. North American. Cf. sense B.
a. A ridiculous, crazy, or wildly eccentric person; one who is foolish or silly. Sometimes also as a more general term of derision or reproach.
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1936 S. Kingsley Dead End iii. 124 Haf an hour wid' 'at cockamamee, yuh'd be dead!
1946 B. Treynor She ate her Cake 163 Some cockamamie from the D.A.'s office got the brilliant idea he'd like to M.C. the performance.
1970 Esquire Oct. 69/1 What's going down here, you cockamamies, we're releasing two pictures this week about goddamn rich guys who get involved with their goddamn black tenants? What is this, an April Fool's memo?
1979 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 7 Oct. (Lifestyle section) 2/3 Those cockamamies cover the models with unwearable stuff.
1999 W. Deverell Slander ii. 24 I get every cockamamie in the Pacific Northwest.
b. An absurd, muddled, or crazy situation or thing. Later chiefly as mass noun: foolish or ridiculous nonsense; rubbish.
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1962 R. Van Scoyk et al. Car 54, where are You? (typescript) (Writers Guild Found., Van Scoyk Papers, Coll. no. WGF-MS-039) Episode 48. 21 What are you doing? You're gonna start a cokomamie here!
1967 New Yorker 18 Feb. 136/1 Columbia Broadcasting System..dumped onto the home screens a Very Big Deal Drama called ‘The Final War of Olly Winter’, which..was the most asinine and inept piece of cockamamy that I'd seen all year.
1989 W. Trogdon Carved in Memory 41 Dem nincompoops... Never saw such cockamamie in my life.
1992 A. Plotnik Honk if you're Writer vii. 65 At the publishing houses, manuscripts originating from writers' colonies may be greeted with such cries as ‘Not another cockamamie from the Keys!’
2014 J. Mobley Searching for Silverheels ii. 12 ‘What a sad, romantic story,’ said Annie. From behind me, Josie snorted again. ‘It's a load of cockamamie is what it is,’ she said.
B. adj.
North American. Originally: inferior, second-rate. Later chiefly: ridiculous, absurd, crazy; muddled, implausible. Cf. sense A. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective]
impertinenta1425
royeta1522
absurd1531
preposterous1533
ridiculous1533
deaf?1541
monstrous?1549
fabulous1561
fanatical1598
fantastical1600
laughable1600
fantasticc1616
nonsense1621
arsy-versy1628
absonous1642
nonsensical1645
ridicule?1669
fancical1671
grotesque1747
rich1836
saugrenu1876
laughsome1884
cockeyed1894
hilarious1925
Rube Goldberg1928
whimsy-whamsy1931
Rube Goldbergian1933
cockamamie1941
fantasticated1960
fanciful-
1941 R. Lardner & M. Kanin Woman of Year (draft film script, rev. 11 July) (M. Herrick Libr., Acad. Motion Picture Arts & Sci.) xciii. 51 Don't give 'em none o' that cockamaimy bar stock, you hear?
1950 New Yorker 7 Oct. 33/3 They're all strickly [sic] from hunger, all cockamamie outfits.
1952 M. Zolotow It takes All Kinds ix. 199 ‘A square,’ Nemo shouts, contorting his large fat face, ‘he is a cockamamie type, he is a stale adventurer.’
1962 ‘E. McBain’ Empty Hours (1963) ii. xi. 113 You marched into the precinct with a tight dress and a cockamamie bunch of alibis.
1990 J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential xxxv. 234 Your cockamamie TV show hasn't panned out so far.
2010 L. Shriver So much for That (2011) ix. 217 He'd concocted some cockamamie explanation about how he was used to locking the bathroom door at work and just wasn't thinking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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