tommyrot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tommyrot
Example Sentences
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Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented 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
To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“What does this tommyrot mean?” the sheepman demanded angrily.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by Hutchison, D. C.
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