rotter

[ rot-er ]
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nounChiefly British Slang.
  1. a thoroughly bad, worthless, or objectionable person.

Origin of rotter

1
First recorded in 1890–95; rot + -er1

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How to use rotter in a sentence

  • But at the Abbey I met some people who were supposed to be religious, and they were pretty good rotters.

    Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
  • Somehow I knew that I must speak, that I must arouse slackers, and tell rotters about what is going on.

  • We don't want 'em to get as far as the semi-finals, and it's up to you chaps to play your heads off and beat these rotters!

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan
  • "Not without feeling rather—well, rotters and outsiders," said Sinclair regretfully.

  • Confound him, he persists in saying I'm all right, but God deliver him from those demmed rotters, the American builders.

    The Husbands of Edith | George Barr McCutcheon

British Dictionary definitions for rotter

rotter

/ (ˈrɒtə) /


noun
  1. slang, mainly British a worthless, unpleasant, or despicable person

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