English

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• tommy-rot

Noun

tommyrot ‎(usually uncountable, plural tommyrots)

1. nonsense, rot.

   1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century, Faber and Faber (1967), p 154.

   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.