tommyrot

n. Informal
Utter foolishness; nonsense.

[Dialectal tommy, fool (from Tommy , nickname for Thomas) + ROT.]

(TOM-ee-rot)

noun
Nonsense; foolishness.

Etymology
From English dialectal tommy (fool), shortening of Thomas + English rot

Usage
"Name Game In this age of loony leaders And blatant tommyrot, Do you feel you can distinguish Hussein and who is not?" — Erik Barnouw; Pepper...and Salt; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Mar 7, 1991.

"Burnham is frankly cynical about the public enquiry. 'That's a lot of tommyrot,' he says, with a broad, crafty smile." — Peter Popham; Terminal Damage; Independent (London, UK), May 4, 1996.

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noun

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, baloney, bilge, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge/ignorance.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: pretentious or silly talk or writing
  Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tosh, twaddle

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sludder, ævl

Nederlands (Dutch)
lariekoek

Français (French)
n. - inepties, balivernes

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Slang) Quatsch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χαζομάρες, βλακείες

Italiano (Italian)
schiocchezze

Português (Portuguese)
n. - rematado disparate (m), grande tolice (f)

Русский (Russian)
вздор

Español (Spanish)
n. - tonterías

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dumheter, smörja

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
瞎说, 无聊, 荒唐事

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 瞎說, 無聊, 荒唐事

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 말도 되지 않는 소리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ばかげたこと, たわごと

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حماقه أو سخافه بالغه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שטויות, הבלים‬

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