Meanings
comparative more cockamamy · superlative most cockamamy · alternative cockamamie
- foolish, silly
Barb Petty (Maryann Urbano): For what? You can't buy squat with smiles. Roy Petty (Jason Butler Harner): Oh my god. You gave Uncle Jack money again, didn't you? Barb Petty: Eh, he's got some cockamamy idea. I don't know.
2017, Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, 19:27 from the start, in Ozark, season 1, episode 8
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveinformal term for ridiculous and implausible
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From Cockamamie (a marketing term for a child's rub-on tattoo), a deliberate mispronunciation of decalcomania.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German töricht, unsinnig
- törichtfoolish
- unsinnigfoolish
- blödfoolish
Cite this entry
cockamamy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockamamy
“cockamamy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockamamy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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