英语词汇cockamamie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cockamamie
词源	cockamamie. Cockamamie means something worthless or trifling, even absurd or strange; a cockamamie excuse or story is an implausible, ridiculous one. The word may be a corruption of decalcomania (“a cheap picture or design on specially pre- pared paper that is transferred to china, wood, etc.”), a word youngsters on New York’s Lower East Side early in the century found tiring to pronounce and impossible to spell.
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