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Cockamamy

Definition: Cockamamy

Cockamamy

Adjective

1. (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.

"Cockamamy" is a common misspelling or typo for: cockamamie.

Synonyms: Cockamamy

Synonyms: cockamamie (adj), fool(a) (adj), goofy (adj), sappy (adj), silly (adj), unreasonable (adj), wacky (adj), zany (adj). (additional references)

Anagrams: Cockamamy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-k-m-m-o-y"
	-3 letters: macaco.
	-4 letters: acock, cacao, cocky, comma, commy, myoma.
	-5 letters: ammo, amok, caca, caky, coca, coma, cyma, kayo, mack, mako, mama, maya, mayo, mock, okay, yack, yock.
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Alternative Orthography: Cockamamy

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 63 6B 61 6D 61 6D 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100001 01101101 01100001 01101101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#109 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0063 006B 0061 006D 0061 006D 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378169776779677991

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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