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tommyrot

noun/ˈtɒmiˌrɒt/

What It Means

Nonsense, rot.

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Tommyrot in Context

“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

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Compound of tommy + rot, (tommy being a dialectical word for fool).

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