Definitions
Etymologies
- Dialectal tommy, fool (from Tommy, nickname for Thomas) + rot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mesquite" had "caught fire" and was up more than 2,000% since 1980, but "tommyrot" had long been worthless.”
“Blair treated them to a speech that we in the UK would have seen through in a moment five years ago but which, being novel, still plays well elsewhere, notwithstanding that it is the usual meaningless Blair tommyrot:”
“That was, like most of his bluster, a lot of tommyrot, the former Prime Minister being as sinuous as snake in the savannah.”
“Dire warnings that "Obama's dropping in the polls" or "Obama's poll numbers are tanking" or even "Obama has lost the public" and other such tommyrot has been a common theme for a few weeks now.”
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch (June 2009) -- Obama v. Clinton (Second Term)
“As any sensible person could tell you this is awful tommyrot.”
““Persecuted for no good reason”: what a lot of tommyrot that is.”
“Such a proposition is, with respect, a lot of tommyrot.”
“Corrupt as politics is, the intellectual corruption of the church and its interference with the voting public is an unfortunate blot on the record of Christians who would distance themselves from such "tommyrot!”
“The words coming from beneath the tower are tommyrot.”
“The idea that a faith and justice caucus has to be an accomodation with fundamentalism, as he claims, is just tommyrot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tommyrot’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 566 more...
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Nonsense
Words that mean (more or less) 'nonsense'
moonshine, tommyrot, rigmarole, hogwash, piffle, hokum, horsefeathers, codswallop, folderol, blatherskite, humbug, gammon and 1 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 58 more...
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tom, dick and harry
merry andrew, spotted dick, black jack, lazy susan, bloody mary, charley horse, doubting thomas, willy nilly, jolly roger, peg leg, catherine wheel, charlotte russe and 156 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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Tawkward
Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.
somniloquy, bafflegab, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, whinge, divulge, anacoluthon, anaphora, sumpsimus, persiflage, eristic, overtones and 198 more...
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Baron Luke's Collection
An assortment of words, which, when used, should inject some vibrancy into your day, hopefully expunging any ennui!
expunge, cogitate, elucidate, post-haste, rebarbative, recalcitrant, smite, absquatulate, forlorn, thole, nefarious, insubordination and 124 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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smock, smock, smock!
things that are just fun to say
trivet, onomatopoeia, whippersnapper, grout, smock, smirk, kibosh, fracas, gaggle, denizen, smorgasbord, soliloquy and 104 more...
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they trip off the tongue
interesting compounds
flummadiddle, flapdoodle, lickety-split, jiggery-pokery, whangdoodle, whippersnapper, mumbo jumbo, shilly-shally, fiddle-faddle, topsy-turvy, fuddy-duddy, hugger-mugger and 38 more...
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Humbug and bafflegab
oil, rot, gas, gup, pop, jive, bull, jazz, guff, pish, tosh, flam and 83 more...
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Words for Nonsense, Blather, and Trash
tommyrot, poppycock, moonshine, codswallop, hogwash, balderdash, gobbledygook, malarkey, flapdoodle, bunkum, hooey, flimshaw and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tommyrot.
asativum Balderdash, nonsense, piffle, bunk, bunco, rubbish, tomfoolery, rigmarole, hooey, tripe, bull, bullshit, twaddle, bilge, tosh, malarkey, drivel, blather, junk, claptrap, fiddle-faddle, hokum, codswallop, hogwash, horse-puckey, prattle, manure, horsefeathers, rhubarb, bollocks, BS, eyewash, blatherskite, folderol, bilge, garbage, and/or gibberish.
Jun 28, 2008