- tommyrot
- noun Etymology: English dialect tommy fool + English rot Date: 1884 utter foolishness or nonsense
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tommyrot — 1884, from tommy in sense of a simpleton (1829), dim. of TOM (Cf. Tom) (as in TOMFOOL (Cf. tomfool)) + ROT (Cf. rot) … Etymology dictionary
tommyrot — [täm′ē rät΄] n. [< the nickname Tommy, in dial. sense of “fool” (see TOMFOOL) + ROT] Slang nonsense; foolishness … English World dictionary
tommyrot — /tom ee rot /, n. nonsense; utter foolishness. [1880 85; tommy simpleton (see TOMFOOL) + ROT] Syn. bosh, rot, rubbish, balderdash. * * * … Universalium
tommyrot — noun nonsense, rot. 1938, , The Old Century, Faber and Faber (1967), p 154 … Wiktionary
tommyrot — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Slang: applesauce,… … English dictionary for students
tommyrot — tom|my|rot [ tami,rat ] noun uncount INFORMAL OLD FASHIONED nonsense … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
tommyrot — n. nonsense … English contemporary dictionary
tommyrot — noun informal, dated nonsense … English new terms dictionary
tommyrot — n 1. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, Jabberwocky; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; hocus pocus, mumbo jumbo, fiddle de dee;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
tommyrot — UK [ˈtɒmɪˌrɒt] / US [ˈtɑmɪˌrɑt] noun [uncountable] informal old fashioned nonsense … English dictionary
