Crossword clues for tommyrot
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
tommyrot
alt. nonsense, rot. n. nonsense, rot.
WordNet
tommyrot
n. pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tosh, twaddle]
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.