Cockamamie

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1940s (originally denoting a design left by a transfer): probably an alteration of decalcomania.


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Possible corruption of French décalcomanie(“process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals”); sometimes erroneously claimed to derive from Yiddish. [1]


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cockamamie (adj.)

"mixed-up, ridiculous, implausible," American English slang word attested by 1946, popularized c. 1960, but said to be New York City children's slang from mid-1920s; perhaps an alteration of decalcomania (see decal). There is a 1945 recorded use of the word apparently meaning a kind of temporary tattoo used by children.