Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drunkard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A toper; a tippler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.
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- noun colloquial A
drunkard , one who drinksalcohol frequently. - noun UK, slang A
fool ,prat ; anidiot .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Simple respect is so ill at ease in the "tosspot" form that I have found only two examples, both obsolete: shunthank (s) and speaktruth.
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Several plants and animals, in addition to those already mentioned, have earned "tosspot" names for various reasons, usually strikingly apparent and often quite whimsical.
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Nor is sweepstakes a "tosspot," because the race does not sweep the stakes, the winner does (or used to, before changing social mores added shares for second, third and fourth).
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Any "tosspot" hunter is sure to chase up blind alleys.
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Truly the "tosspot" is harsh on flattercaps and short on flattery.
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Such ambiguities are the spice of "tosspot" hunting.
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For those wondering, the above two paragraphs translate as "Fuck off David you pedantic twat", but I know he has problems with swearing so I avoided using anything stronger than 'tosspot'.
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His comment is no different to any other tosspot in the Goverment giving it all the blah and spin and then doing nothing about it.
We Love The Judge (For a change) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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When Evans attempted to wring tears from his readers with a maudlin account of a dying tosspot, writing that “the broad canopy of Heaven . . . had blacked its face with heavy clouds, and was weeping as a mother weeps when she sees her child,” Twain suggested—a little late—that the woman in question simply get a job and fix things up with her husband.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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When Evans attempted to wring tears from his readers with a maudlin account of a dying tosspot, writing that “the broad canopy of Heaven . . . had blacked its face with heavy clouds, and was weeping as a mother weeps when she sees her child,” Twain suggested—a little late—that the woman in question simply get a job and fix things up with her husband.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
wunderkammer commented on the word tosspot
"in his soup, the tosspot said, like crackers"
February 9, 2007
trivet commented on the word tosspot
yoink!
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February 9, 2007
john commented on the word tosspot
"Bukowski was a major-league tosspot, occasionally brutish but far less so than the mean-minded Hemingway, who drank himself into suicide."
The New York Times, November 25, 2007
November 26, 2007
whichbe commented on the word tosspot
Toper, drunkard.
May 13, 2008