tommyrot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tommyrot
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Well, Barry." said Ike, "in my mind this is actual tommyrot.
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Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.
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Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.
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It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.
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From Oregon came an impetuous, slangily-worded exhortation to Lydia not to make a fool of herself and miss the best of life to live up to the tommyrot standard of old dry-as-dust Endbury.
From The Squirrel-Cage by John Alanzo Williams
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