rotty

Updated: June 6, 2025

As far as I can make out it's a purely English dinner, except, perhaps, the soup, and it ought to be described in English. What's the good of calling roast lamb 'agneau rôti'?" He pronounced it "rotty," with an inflection of scorn. "There's no sense in it.

Archibald Marshall - The Squire's Daughter: Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons