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
Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.
From Time Magazine Archive
These guiding principles are advanced with brisk savvy in Royal Flash, which has to do with the exploits of Captain Harry Flashman, a rogue, prig, tosspot and coward, and proud of every bit of it.
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
But a certain ne'er-do-well Mountain, a noted striker and tosspot of the district, had mysteriously disappeared about that date, and had never since come within scope of Castle Barfield knowledge.
From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie
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