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The earliest known use of the noun tommyrot is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for tommyrot is from 1880, in the Sporting Times. Apparently from a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Tommy, rot n.1. See etymology.
Definition of tommyrot noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Oxford English Dict.: "A soldiers' name for the brown bread formerly supplied as rations (also 'brown tommy'); . . . a loaf of bread (dial.); among workmen, food, provisions generally, esp. those carried with them to work each day. . . . App. personified as 'Tommy Brown,' altered to 'brown Tommy' and 'tommy.'".
Tommyrot Origin and History - Utter rubbish, nonsense or foolishness is a later development from tomfoolery and dates from the late 19th century. Tommyrot Meanings and origins of thousands of idioms, curious words, and slang.
Definitions of tommyrot. noun. pretentious or silly talk or writing. synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tosh, twaddle. see more.
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tommy-rot. Noun. tommyrot (usually uncountable; pl. tommyrots) 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. Dictionary entries.
