rotweiler.html - {n.}, {informal} A person whose character or way of acting is not good. * /His friends have all learned he is a rotten egg./ Often used by children in fun, as of someone who is slow in doing something. * /The boys ran to the river to go swimming and Dick cried, "Last one in is a rotten egg!"/

rotweiler.html - {adj. phr.} 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled. * /This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core./ 2. In total moral collapse. * /The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core./

rotweiler.html - v., n., & int.
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(rotted, rotting)
1 intr. a (of animal or vegetable matter) lose its original form by the chemical action of bacteria, fungi, etc.; decay. b (foll. by off, away) crumble or drop from a stem etc. through decomposition.
2 intr. a (of society, institutions, etc.) gradually perish from lack of vigour or use. b (of a prisoner etc.) waste away (left to rot in prison); (of a person) languish.
3 tr. cause to rot, make rotten.
4 tr. Brit. sl. tease, abuse, denigrate.
5 intr. Brit. sl. joke.

--n.

1 the process or state of rotting.
2 sl. nonsense; an absurd or foolish statement, argument, or proposal.
3 a sudden series of (usu. unaccountable) failures; a rapid decline in standards etc. (a rot set in; we must try to stop the rot).
4 (often prec. by the) a virulent liver-disease of sheep.

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expressing incredulity or ridicule.

rot-gut sl. cheap harmful alcoholic liquor. [OE rotian (v.): (n.) ME, perh. f. Scand.: cf. Icel., Norw. rot]

rotweiler.html - n.
1 esp. Brit. a list of persons acting, or duties to be done, in rotation; a roster.
2 (Rota) RC Ch. the supreme ecclesiastical and secular court. [L, = wheel]

rotweiler.html - n. & adj.
--n.

a member of Rotary.

--adj.

of Rotary. [ROTARY + -AN]

rotweiler.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

acting by rotation (rotary drill; rotary pump).

--n.

(pl. -ies)
1 a rotary machine.
2 US a traffic roundabout.
3 (Rotary) (in full Rotary International) a worldwide charitable society of businessmen, orig. named from members entertaining in rotation.

Rotary club a local branch of Rotary. rotary-wing (of an aircraft) deriving lift from rotary aerofoils. [med.L rotarius (as ROTA)]