Your Rottenness

Your Rottenness

English

Etymology

From your + rottenness, from rotten (“cruel, mean, immoral”). Compare Your Majesty and Your Highness.

Pronoun

Your Rottenness

1. (rare) A pseudo-title of respect used towards a villain or another unlikeable person.
   • 1992, Aladdin (1992 Disney film)

     [Iago is running on the same place, to turn wheels on a machine that produces an artificial storm required to cast a magical spell]

     Iago: [panting] With all due respect, Your Rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm?

     Jafar: Save your breath, Iago. Faster!

   • 2008, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Henry Potty and the Deathly Paper Shortage: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody, Henry Potty and the Pet Rock, →ISBN, page 53:

     “Ready my vacuum cleaner and pack eight bottles of chartreuse sunscreen. Henry Potty will rue the day he dared defy me!”

     Miffie smiled. “Don't worry, Your Rottenness. His series is numbered.”