Definitions
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- adjective
foolish ,silly - adjective
trifling
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- adjective ludicrous, foolish
Etymologies
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Examples
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Donald R. Morris The Houston Post In "The Joys and Oys of Yiddish" [XV,3], Messrs. Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy
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FITZWATER: Well, the "cockamamy" part of the idea that a President is going to be so intimidated by the press or wilt under the pressure and walk out of the Presidency, or something like that.
Call the Briefing! Bush & Reagan, Sam & Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press 1995
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"Come on now, Peter, please don't try to flatter me with some kind of cockamamy line about love at first sight," she said, giving him a look that told him she wouldn't begin to believe it if he tried.
From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982
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I went along with this cockamamy plan to blame India because you told me to look at the bigger picture.
A Good Man is Hard to Find ReShonda Tate Billingsley 2010
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I went along with this cockamamy plan to blame India because you told me to look at the bigger picture.
A Good Man is Hard to Find ReShonda Tate Billingsley 2010
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So now he looked somehow less of a man because he refused to fight her cockamamy wars.
Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010
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Plz oh plz oh plz show me the poll that backs up this cockamamy assertion.
Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents 2009
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He lay with his legs on his king-sized bed and his body folded forward off the edge, toward the floor, in what looked suspiciously like a cockamamy approximation of a Downward-Facing Dog.
The Ex Games JENNIFER ECHOLS 2009
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He lay with his legs on his king-sized bed and his body folded forward off the edge, toward the floor, in what looked suspiciously like a cockamamy approximation of a Downward-Facing Dog.
The Ex Games JENNIFER ECHOLS 2009
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For example, Obama extend invitations to the GOP which then goes and shoots itself in the collective foot with cockamamy rejections.
George Spyros: Obama's Modus Operandi: NYT Coverage of Coen Brothers Clean Coal Ad 2009
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