tommyrot

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; moonshine, gobbledegook, foolish humbug, foam, froth, bunkum, Sl. bunk, U.S. Si. blah; flummery, Inf. hokum, Sl. applesauce, Sl. eyewash; rubbish, Sl. tripe, refuse, Dial. culch, chaff, trash, Inf. truck; trumpery, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. crap, Sl. crock, Sl. bull; balderdash, hogwash, swill, Sl. horsefeathers; stuff, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Inf. gammon, Brit. Sl. tosh.
2. utter foolishness, fudge, folly, rigmarole, amphi-gory; footle, Inf. malarkey, Sl. bushwa, Sl. baloney, Sl. bilge or bilge water, Sl. meshugaas, Scot, and North Eng. haver; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. hooey, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. gas, palaver, palavering, palaver-ment; claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, Sl. hot air; jabber, jabbering, prate, prating; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling; clack, clacking, clatter, clattering, rattling, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, chippering, cackle, cackling; chitchat, chitter-chatter, small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh.

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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 — noun Etymology: English dialect tommy fool + English rot Date: 1884 utter foolishness or nonsense …   New Collegiate 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 — UK [ˈtɒmɪˌrɒt] / US [ˈtɑmɪˌrɑt] noun [uncountable] informal old fashioned nonsense …   English dictionary

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