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"Utter foolishness!"
Answer for the clue ""Utter foolishness!" ", 8 letters:
tommyrot
Alternative clues for the word tommyrot
Word definitions for tommyrot in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney , boloney , bilgewater , bosh , drool , humbug , taradiddle , tarradiddle , tosh , twaddle ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884, from tommy in sense of "a simpleton" (1829), diminutive of Tom (as in tomfool ) + rot (n.).
Usage examples of tommyrot.
As the President listened to this tommyrot, Feeley and I made frantic hand gestures.
He therefore had no science, that is, no knowledge--outside his profession--but only what is called learning, though tommyrot would be a fitter name for it.
He drew the line at what he defined as social tommyrot, and he drew it more and more sharply.