tosspot
Americannoun
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Literary. a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated.
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British Slang: Disparaging. a contemptible person, idiot, or loser.
noun
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archaic a habitual drinker
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slang a stupid or contemptible person
Etymology
Origin of tosspot
Example Sentences
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Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Manhattan the Rev. Charles S. Webster saw fit to say that the Scottish poet was not the irreligious tosspot he had been made out.
From Time Magazine Archive
How? soul of a pickle-herring, body of a spagirical tosspot, doublet of motley, and mantle of pilgrim, how art thou transmuted!
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
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