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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Described in one sentence, this yarn about a balmy tosspot who knows an imaginary outsized rabbit named Harvey may suggest all the horrors of relentless whimsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood.
From Time Magazine Archive
I love a jolly gossip for a tosspot; for she gives more speech, and takes more liquor, than your 'breeked' steers that drink down the words, and drown them in the throat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay
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