Definition of COCKAMAMIE

cockamamie

Meanings

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.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

absurd, alcatote, arsehole, asinine, asshat, asshole, balmy, barmy, bayard, bedaft, berk, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, buffoon, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, clart, clown, cockamamie, cockamamy, 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, goofy, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, Homer Simpson, 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, sappy, schmo, schmuck, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, silly, 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, wacky, wally, wantwit, wazzock, whacky, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, yampy, zany

Scrabble Score: 22

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

Words With Friends Score: 26

cockamamie is a valid Words With Friends word