rottletrap
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rottletrap (comparative more rottletrap, superlative most rottletrap)
- (West Country, Dorset) Rickety
- 1918 August, John Read, “The Old Craftsman: A West Country Study”, in Hermes[1], University of Sydney, page 198:
- “I do stand wi’ ’ee all through, Jacob,” said Farmer Wangle. “Vur vaught and dear a-bought: a wold enough zaying, but so true for all that rottletrap machine-made trumpery as ever a war in the wold days!”