Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) of an audience, to boo, hiss and generally give the actors a hard time.

1866		Alexandria Gaz. (DC) 14 Nov. 2/3: Gen. Butler is hissed and ‘rotten-appled’.
1883		London Figaro Mar. in Ware (1909) 211/1: The last new American verb is ‘To rotten-apple’. Actors, it seems, in some of the minor New York theatres, are not infrequently rotten-appled, much in the same way as our legislative candidates in the old hustings days used to be ‘rotten-egged.’.

a general insult, the implication is of venereal disease, often personnifed (in the US military) with a proper female name to typify an unfaithful or hyper-sexy ‘girl you’ve left behind you’; also attrib .

1972		L. Meredith Sensuous Christian 16: I knew a girl once in grade school who was called Prunella Rottencrotch.
1975		J. Roe The Same Old Grind 115: You rotten-crotch hooker [...] All of you! Tramps! Pigs!’.
1975		A.E. Bergman Women of Viet Nam 64: he same Marine who ‘salutes a lady’ may refer to a common woman as ‘"Susie Rottencrotch’.
1979		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Short Timers (1985) 13: You days of finger-banging ol’ Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over.
1986		M. Petit Peacekeepers 89: Your gal Suzy Rottencrotch is probably back home screwing your best friend.
1993		Best Amer. Short Stories 121: It was a letter to Rosie Rottencrotch [...] and what was of utter importance was not Rosie Rottencrotch and her steaming-hot panties but rather the muzzle velocity of the M-14.
1995		F. Kozick Man’s Ruin 34: [pic. caption] Mary jane Rottencrotch and Her pearly Pink Panties.
2008		Simon & Burns ‘Get Some’ Generation Kill ep. 1 [TV script] A dirty-ass jerk-off letter from Suzy Rottencrotch.

(N.Z. prison) a prisoner who has spent too many years in prison.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 156/1: rotten egg n. an inmate who has stayed too long in prison.

a person who has bad breath.

1923

J. Manchon Le Slang.

a pejorative term for a follower of King William III (r.1688–1702).

1909

J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 211/1: Rotten orange (Lower Peoples’, 1686). Term of contempt. Historical – from the name given by the Jacobites to William III. – Prince of Orange.

(US) hugging and kissing.

c.1929		‘camping with the y.p.c.’ in Songs of the Yellowstone Park Camps n.p.: You'll hear the native slang, / A ‘Savage’ serves you food. / You'll find what ‘rotten-logging’ means / And learn that you're a dude [ibid.] ‘song to the dudes’ Here’s to the girl who goes out nights / Who goes out rotten-logging.
c.1929		‘Yellowstone Lingo’ in Songs of the Yellowstone Park Camps n.p.: rotten-logging — Dating.
1938		Dly Atheneum in McGill Dly 19 Dec. 4: Hugging and kissing [...] Lollygagging, necking, pitching honey, smooching, tonsil swabbing, pawing, muzzling, flinging woo and rotten logging are other names applied to the same activity.

usu, of money, well-supplied with; for cit. 1922, the orig. Shakespeare & Co. (Paris) edition has ‘rotten’; the Bodley Head UK edns. of 1937 ff. have rotto and are cited as such by OED and Partridge.

1906		Somerville & Ross Some Irish Yesterdays 173: That’s one of the Heth family! The hills is rotten with it.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 22: You know that red Carlisle girl, Lily? / — Yes. / — Spooning with him last night on the pier. The father is rotten with money.
1934		J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 160: Pay? – Tommy pay? – he’s rotten with money!
1940		Eve. Post (N.Z.) 14 June 6/8: Rome was simply rotten with Fritzes.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 45: Rotten with booze I spose.
1960		J. Iggulden Storms of Summer 297: Some rotten poxy bitch of a chromo [...] they reckon she was rotten with the jack.
1966		G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 79: You’re rotten with meths, you boozy bastard.
1984		‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 61: The place was rotten with fuzz only day before yesterday.