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Definition: Cockamamie |
CockamamieAdjective1. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CockamamieSynonyms: cockamamy (adj), fool(a) (adj), goofy (adj), sappy (adj), silly (adj), unreasonable (adj), wacky (adj), zany (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cockamamie |
| English words defined with "cockamamie": cockamamy ♦ fool ♦ goofy ♦ sappy, silly ♦ unreasonable ♦ wacky ♦ zany. (references) |
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 | Cackle; chortle; chuckle; guffaw; hee-haw; snicker; snigger; tehee; titter; twitter; absurd; asinine; brainless; cockamamie; crazy; crazy; daffy; daft; dingy; dippy; doltish; dotty; fantastic; fatuous; feebleminded; half-baked; half-witted; harebrained; i. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cockamamie | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cockamamie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | verwirrend (baffling, bemusing, bewildering, cluttering, confusing, deranging, disarranging, discombobulating, disheveling, disorienting, distractedly, distracting, disturbing, dizzying, flustering, involved, muddling, perplexing, puzzling, snarly, unsettling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockamamiecay ตลก. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Cockamamie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cockamamy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cockamamie" (pronounced kô'kumā"mē) |
| 4 | -m ā" m ē | Mamie. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-k-m-m-o" | |
-4 letters: caeoma, comake, commie, macaco. | |
-5 letters: acmic, acock, aecia, amice, cacao, caeca, cameo, comae, comic, comma, mamie, mecca, mimeo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 63 6B 61 6D 61 6D 69 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -.-. -.- .- -- .- -- .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100001 01101101 01100001 01101101 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o c k a m a m i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0063 006B 0061 006D 0061 006D 0069 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37816977677967797571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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