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
- intermediate technology
- intermediation
- intermediator
- intermedin
- intermedium
- interment
- intermesh
- intermezzo
- interminable
- interminableness
- interminably
- intermingle
- intermission
- intermit
- intermittence
- intermittency
- intermittent
- intermittent claudication
- intermittently
- intermix
- intermixable
- intermixture
- intermodal
- intermolecular
- Intermontane Region