| 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. |