rotto

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adjective

Very drunk.

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Meanings

rotto1

adjectiverotto (comparative more rotto, superlative most rotto)

comparative more rotto · superlative most rotto

  1. IrelandarchaiccolloquialVery drunk.

    [W]hen rotto and making himself a nuisance to everybody all round he was in the habit of ostentatiously sporting in public a suit of brown paper (a fact).

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 600

Rotto2

proper noun
  1. AustraliaslangRottnest Island, a small island off the coast of Western Australia.

Origin

rotto · adjective

Apparently from rott(en) + -o, probably after blotto.

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Rotto · proper noun

From Rottnest + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Torto
Cite this entry
APA

rotto. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rotto

MLA

“rotto.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rotto. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rotto,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rotto.

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