tommyrot

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UK/ˈtɒmiˌrɒt/US/ˈtɑmiˌrɑt/

noun

Nonsense, rot.

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Meanings

nountommyrot (usually uncountable, plural tommyrots)

plural tommyrots · alternative tommy-rot

  1. uncountableusuallyNonsense, rot.

    My brothers, on the other hand, considered that my talents were overrated. Putting it plainly, they told me that what I wrote was tommy-rot.

    1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century, Faber and Faber, published 1967, page 154

Synonyms & antonyms

nounpretentious or silly talk or writing

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nonsensebunknonsensicality
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Compound of tommy + rot, (tommy being a dialectical word for fool).

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APA

tommyrot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tommyrot

MLA

“tommyrot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tommyrot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tommyrot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tommyrot.

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