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From your + rottenness, from rotten (“cruel, mean, immoral”). Compare Your Majesty and Your Highness.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A pseudo-title of respect used towards a villain or another unlikeable person. Full definition →
From your + rottenness, from rotten (“cruel, mean, immoral”). Compare Your Majesty and Your Highness.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.