Glenn English wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:03, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
>
>> PS. I was going to call this a cock-a-manie (sp?) solution but I can't
>> find the word in any of our dictionaries. Anyone know a correct
>> spelling and dictionary entry?
>
>Not at all sure, but I think it's "cockamamie" - it's a term my
>grandparents used to use, so I suspect it came out of the 1920's.
>It ought to be in the Dictionary of American Slang.
FYI
gt@koko:~$ dict cockamamie
1 definition found
>From WordNet (r) 1.7 [wn]:
cockamamie
adj : (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not
going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky
plan for selling more books" [syn: {cockamamy}, {fool(a)},
{goofy}, {sappy}, {silly}, {wacky}, {zany},
{unreasonable}]
gt@koko:~$
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