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tommy-rot

tommy-rot is the alternative form of tommyrot.

Meaning of tommyrot

Noun

tommyrot (usually uncountable, plural tommyrots)

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

Questions about tommy-rot

What is tommy-rot the alternative form of?
Tommy-rot is the alternative form of tommyrot.

Words near tommy-rot in the dictionary

  1. tommy-gunned
  2. tommy-gunning
  3. tommy-guns
  4. tommy-knocker
  5. tommy-knockers
  6. tommy-rot
  7. tommycod
  8. tommycods
  9. tommyfish
  10. tommyhawk
  11. tommyhawked

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