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Pace Webster's Third [XV,3], but including the word cockamamie in a Yiddish lexicon is questionable, as is the definition given.
Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy (or cockamamie ) at the head of a list of Yiddish words found in English as published in Webster's Third New International Dictionary . I have spoken Yiddish since childhood, have a fairly wide reading knowledge and acquaintance with various levels and styles of the language, but have never come across a word or phrase resembling cockamamy . It simply has no meaning in that language.
This craze became known as décalcomanie, from décalc- (from décalquer `transfer a tracing' + - o - + manie `mania,' whence we get decalcomania ( decal for short for the transfers), and the adjective cockamamie some say echoes the sense of florid but superficial embellishment.
As we grew older we came to realize that cockamamie was merely a child's distortion of decalcomania . Later, cockamamie came to mean `cheap, sleazy, gaudy, trashy, junky'--but never “mixed-up, ridiculous.”
Cockamamie has nothing whatever to do with roosters, talking or otherwise.