cockamamie
/ˈkɒkəˌmeɪmi
/(also cockamamy)
adjective North American informal
Ridiculous; implausible: a cockamamie theory...
- He has espoused some cockamamie theories about the secret society.
- Once you have real evidence, not some conjectured, cockamamie theory, call me.
- Someone comes up with this cockamamie theory that an e-mail could melt down all the computers and maybe even blow up all the buildings.
Origin
1940s (originally denoting a design left by a transfer): probably an alteration of decalcomania.
Rhymes
- neurobiology
- neurobiotaxis
- neuroblast
- neuroblastic
- neuroblastoma
- neuroborreliosis
- neurocentral
- neurochemical
- neurochemically
- neurochemist
- neurochemistry
- neurochord
- neurocirculatory
- neurocirculatory asthenia
- neurocoel
- neurocoele
- neurocognitive
- neurocomputer
- neurocomputing
- neurocranial
- neurocranium
- neurocrine
- neurocutaneous
- neurocyte
- neurocytologic