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• n  pretentious or silly talk or writing

• It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses in the invasion is tommyrot.
• Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.
• That interpretation, acid-tongued Justice Felix Frankfurter in effect ruled this week, is so much tommyrot: "To suggest that taxing them makes inroads upon the independence of .

• baloney
• boloney
• bilgewater
• bosh
• drool
• humbug
• taradiddle
• tarradiddle
• tosh
• twaddle

Quotes

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• Dwight Eisenhower in San Francisco Chronicle
  Eisenhower replied: "Well, Barry, in my mind, this is actual tommyrot. Now you've known about war -- you've been through one. I'm older than you and have been in more. But I'll tell you, no man that knows anything about war is going to be reckless...