tommyrot

See also: tommy-rot

English

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• tommy-rot

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Noun

tommyrot (usually uncountable, plural tommyrots)

1. Nonsense, rot.
   • 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century, Faber and Faber, published 1967, page 154:

     My brothers, on the other hand, considered that my talents were overrated. Putting it plainly, they told me that what I wrote was tommy-rot.