Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Utter foolishness; nonsense.
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- noun
nonsense ,rot .
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- noun pretentious or silly talk or writing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Mesquite" had "caught fire" and was up more than 2,000% since 1980, but "tommyrot" had long been worthless.
The Mind Readers Christopher F. Chabris 2011
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Blair treated them to a speech that we in the UK would have seen through in a moment five years ago but which, being novel, still plays well elsewhere, notwithstanding that it is the usual meaningless Blair tommyrot:
Archive 2008-01-13 2008
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That was, like most of his bluster, a lot of tommyrot, the former Prime Minister being as sinuous as snake in the savannah.
Archive 2008-02-24 2008
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That was, like most of his bluster, a lot of tommyrot, the former Prime Minister being as sinuous as snake in the savannah.
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Dire warnings that "Obama's dropping in the polls" or "Obama's poll numbers are tanking" or even "Obama has lost the public" and other such tommyrot has been a common theme for a few weeks now.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch (June 2009) -- Obama v. Clinton (Second Term) 2010
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Blair treated them to a speech that we in the UK would have seen through in a moment five years ago but which, being novel, still plays well elsewhere, notwithstanding that it is the usual meaningless Blair tommyrot:
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Dire warnings that "Obama's dropping in the polls" or "Obama's poll numbers are tanking" or even "Obama has lost the public" and other such tommyrot has been a common theme for a few weeks now.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch (June 2009) -- Obama v. Clinton (Second Term) 2009
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As any sensible person could tell you this is awful tommyrot.
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As any sensible person could tell you this is awful tommyrot.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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As any sensible person could tell you this is awful tommyrot.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
asativum commented on the word tommyrot
Balderdash, nonsense, piffle, bunk, bunco, rubbish, tomfoolery, rigmarole, hooey, tripe, bull, bullshit, twaddle, bilge, tosh, malarkey, drivel, blather, junk, claptrap, fiddle-faddle, hokum, codswallop, hogwash, horse-puckey, prattle, manure, horsefeathers, rhubarb, bollocks, BS, eyewash, blatherskite, folderol, bilge, garbage, and/or gibberish.
June 28, 2008