tommyrot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tommyrot
Example Sentences
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Well, Barry." said Ike, "in my mind this is actual 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
Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lalage was, in my opinion, herself guilty of something very like the sin of tommyrot when she mocked another bishop for a sermon he had preached on "Empire Day."
From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.
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