tommyrot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tommyrot
Example Sentences
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How much we scorn the little crumbs that are thrown our way, such as the $300 mustering-out pay and all such meaningless tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, Barry." said Ike, "in my mind this is actual tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some tommyrot about a conspiracy against the Czar.
From The Boy Scouts In Russia by E. A. Furman
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