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cockamamie; cockamamy
adjective
implausible, not credible US, 1941
Neither Yiddish nor Hebrew, but born of Jewish immigrants in the US.- “How could Helen Lawrence like our cockemamie act?” — Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, p. 23, 1966
- Did you ever hear such a cockamamy story? — Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish, p. 94, 1968
- Through some cockamamie appeal you’re back on the street. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 387, 1979
- [W]hy would you approach a sarcastic, honest-to-a-fault asshole like me with such a cockamamie idea? — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 71, 1995
- I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where he had gotten that cokamamy idea[.] — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 75, 1999
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