cockamamie
Ridiculousness; folly; foolish nonsense.
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Ridiculousness; folly; foolish nonsense.
Lo and behold, in full color there was a photograph of an old glass-paned hanging cupboard with clusters of strawberry, cherry, green grape and apple “cockamamies” pasted in the center of each pane.
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(US, chiefly, dated) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
“Much like all of Little Lord Trumplestein's ideas, this is his of a blockade And like all of his cockamamie ideas, it's a complete disaster and failure, just like him 1st step of being a Warmonger is admitting you're a Warmonger, but he can't do that right either”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A foolish or ridiculous person.
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