Cockamamie vs Cockamamy - What's the difference?
cockamamie | cockamamy | Alternative forms |
(US, chiefly, dated) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
* 1934 , , Call It Sleep , 1976,
* 1987 , Verbatim , Volumes 14-15,
* 2000 , Lillian Bressman, Tales of Mama and Other Reminiscences ,
* 2011 , Prospero Shimon, Autobiography of a Repaired Physician ,
A foolish or ridiculous person.
* 1970 , Esquire , Volume 74,
Foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable.
* 2004 , William Dritschilo, Earth Days: Ecology Comes Of Age As A Science ,
* 2005 , George D. Schultz, Returning: Can One Ever Go Back? ,
* 2012 , Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition ,
* 2007 , Suzann Ledbetter, Halfway To Half Way , 2012,
Trifling.
Cockamamy is a alternative form of cockamamie.
As adjectives the difference between cockamamie and cockamamy
is that cockamamie is foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable while cockamamy is foolish, silly.As a noun cockamamie
is a decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.cockamamie
English
Alternative forms
* cockamamy * cockamammyNoun
(cockamamies)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.
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.
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.
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- 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.
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)- Do not give any more cockamamie reasons for failing to complete your assignment.
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.
page 8,
- And I dare say it'll get even more cockamamie .
page 113,
- Cowboys & Aliens has without any doubt the most cockamamie plot I've witnessed in many a moon.
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- Notions didn't come more cockamamie than this one, but one unrepressed chortle and Delbert would be furious, or feel like a fool.
