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
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
"The big rumors about meeting here to discuss stopping the bombing or to pull out," he said, "are just pure, absolute tommyrot and fiction."
From Time Magazine Archive
Cut out the bally tommyrot and let me 'ave a wash.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell
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