tommyrot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tommyrot
Example Sentences
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The fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.
From Time Magazine Archive
To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's tommyrot, that's what it is," Amy said with conviction.
From Left Tackle Thayer by Ralph Henry Barbour
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