tommyroticadj.
/ˌtɒmɪˈrɒtɪk/, U.S. /ˌtɑmiˈrɑdɪk/ humorous. Now rare.
Nonsensical, ridiculous. Cf. tommyrot n.In later use apparently with allusion to quot. 1894.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]
tooma1250
beggarly1526
trumpery1576
balductum1577
skimble-skamble1598
nonsense1621
warbling1621
flim-flam1631
nonsensical1645
unsensical1692
fiddlecome1697
waffling1698
mataeological1716
flummery1749
water-gruelish1788
slip-sloppish1797
twaddling1804
twaddle1830
twaddly1841
fee-faw-fumish1846
poppycock1852
boshy1860
twaddlesome1865
moonshiny1880
cockalorum1881
tommyrotic1894
crappy1928
ballsy1942
farkakte1960
1894 Punch 18 Aug. 82/2 The Modern Novel is a blend of the Erotic, the Neurotic, and the Tommyrotic.
1895 Chicago Advance 4 July 4/1 A whole school of what has been humorously called erotic and tommyrotic realists..asserting that progress in art requires the elimination of moral ideas.
1976 Progress-Bull. (Pomona, Calif.) 6 July 10/5 Today's advertising experts are not only psychotic, neurotic and erotic but also about 90 percent tommyrotic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1894