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Definition of "tommyrot" [tommyrot]

  • Informal Utter foolishness; nonsense. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "tommyrot" in a sentence
  • ""Mesquite" had "caught fire" and was up more than 2,000% since 1980, but "tommyrot" had long been worthless."
  • "That was, like most of his bluster, a lot of tommyrot, the former Prime Minister being as sinuous as snake in the savannah."
  • "Blair treated them to a speech that we in the UK would have seen through in a moment five years ago but which, being novel, still plays well elsewhere, notwithstanding that it is the usual meaningless Blair tommyrot:"