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Assignment vs Cockamamie - What's the difference?

assignment | cockamamie |

As nouns the difference between assignment and cockamamie

is that assignment is the act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks while cockamamie is (us|chiefly|dated) a decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.

As an adjective cockamamie is

foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable.

assignment

English

(wikipedia assignment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
    • This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
    • We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
  • An assigned task.
    • The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
  • A position to which someone is assigned.
    • Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
  • (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
    • Mrs Smith gave out our assignments , and said we had to finish them by Monday.
  • (legal) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
    • The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
  • (legal) A document that effects this transfer.
    • Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
  • (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

    • cockamamie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cockamamy * cockamammy

    Noun

    (cockamamies)
  • (US, chiefly, dated) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
  • * 1934 , , Call It Sleep , 1976, page 367,
    • "If it wuz a nickel," said one broody voice between the gratings, "I could buy fuh two cends cockamamies an' pud em on mine hull arm. An' den fuh t'ree cends I'll go to duh movies."
    "Yuh c'n buy fuh t'ree cends cockamamies ." Izzy crisply revised the dream.
  • * 1987 , Verbatim , Volumes 14-15, page 24,
    • As a youngster in The Bronx in the early 1930s, I would occasionally take my windfall of a few pennies to the local candy store and buy a strip of cockamamies , 'comic-style cartoons in brilliant colors, each about an inch by an inch and a half, transferable to forearm or forehead by wetting', preferably with saliva to make things agreeably messy.
  • * 2000 , Lillian Bressman, Tales of Mama and Other Reminiscences , page 201,
    • Lo and behold, in full color there was a photograph of an old glass-paned hanging cupboard with clusters of strawberry, cherry, green grape and apple “cockamamies ” pasted in the center of each pane.
  • * 2011 , Prospero Shimon, Autobiography of a Repaired Physician , unnumbered page,
    • She bought Japanese furniture in 1943 when everyone hated the Japanese. Goldfarb's furniture store on Pitkin Avenue could hardly give the stuff away. Evelyn had cockamamies —decorative plastic adhesives all over the walls.
  • A foolish or ridiculous person.
  • * 1970 , Esquire , Volume 74, page 69,
    • "What's going down here, you cockamamies , we're releasing two pictures this week about goddamn rich guys who get involved with their goddamn black tenants? What is this, an April Fool's memo?"

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable.
    • Do not give any more cockamamie reasons for failing to complete your assignment.
  • * 2004 , William Dritschilo, Earth Days: Ecology Comes Of Age As A Science , page 271,
    • Anyone arguing against even the most cockamamie idea, so long as that idea is supposed to benefit conservation, is viewed with suspicion, at best.
  • * 2005 , George D. Schultz, Returning: Can One Ever Go Back? , page 8,
    • And I dare say it'll get even more cockamamie .
  • * 2012 , Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition , page 113,
    • Cowboys & Aliens has without any doubt the most cockamamie plot I've witnessed in many a moon.
  • * 2007 , Suzann Ledbetter, Halfway To Half Way , 2012, unnumbered page,
    • Notions didn't come more cockamamie than this one, but one unrepressed chortle and Delbert would be furious, or feel like a fool.
  • Trifling.

    • Synonyms

    * goofy, sappy, unreasonable, wacky, zany

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