tommyrot

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tommyrot (usually uncountable, plural tommyrots)

  1. Nonsense, rot.
    • 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century, Faber and Faber, published 1967, page 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.