The story
- French · borrowed fromdécalcomanie“process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals”
- English todaycockamamie
Possible corruption of French décalcomanie (“process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals”); sometimes erroneously claimed to derive from Yiddish.
Words from the same roots
Frenchdécalcomanie all →
decalcomaniadecalcomanie
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.