| 单词 | cockamamie |
| 释义 | cockamamie (once / 347627 pages) adj Anything cockamamie is ridiculous and far-fetched. A cockamamie plan is not likely to work. This is a silly-sounding word for things that are silly, ludicrous, foolish, and impractical. Faking your own kidnapping to get out of a math test is a cockamamie plan. Wearing a fake mustache everywhere for no reason is cockamamie. Lots of comedies involve cockamamie plans and schemes, where the characters are trying to do something bizarre and unlikely to work. A cockamamie idea is the opposite of a practical, logical idea. WORD FAMILYcockamamie USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s just some cockamamie story Isaacs gave to the police,” Denisch said. Washington Times(Nov 12, 2016) The scheme was so byzantine and cockamamie that many suspect Plato couldn’t have been serious; Hobbes, for one, called the idea “useless.” The New Yorker(Oct 31, 2016) Or maybe Trump is doomed and he’s trying to build the audience for some cockamamie media venture. Slate(Sep 01, 2016) adj ludicrous, foolish gave me a cockamamie reason for not going Syn cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany foolish devoid of good sense or judgment |
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