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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.
According to the Times , the theory under which Clinton may now admit to sexual contact with Lewinsky is this: when he said in his Jones case deposition that he had never had sexual relations with Lewinsky, he was following the definition of sexual relations approved by the Jones trial judge--contact with any of a list of body parts (the paper quotes one Clinton advisor's assessment of the definition: "cockamamie")--but since the list of body parts doesn't include the mouth, it doesn't count oral sex as sexual relations.
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.
cockamamy (or cockamamie) `mixed-up, ridiculous.
Cockamamie has nothing whatever to do with roosters, talking or otherwise.