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toss-pot

toss-pot is the alternative form of tosspot.

Meaning of tosspot

Noun

tosspot (plural tosspots)

  1. (archaic, colloquial) A drunkard, one who drinks alcohol frequently.
    • The Muses shame to remember some fresh quaffers of Helicon; and which of the Graces or Virtues blusheth not to name some lusty tosspots of rhetoric?1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, pages 140–141
  2. (Ireland, UK, offensive, slang) A fool, prat; an idiot.
    • Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that.2000 June 13, Darren Tackle, The Guardian

Forms of toss-pot

pluraltoss-pots

Questions about toss-pot

What is toss-pot the alternative form of?
Toss-pot is the alternative form of tosspot.

Words near toss-pot in the dictionary

  1. toss to the lions
  2. toss to the wind
  3. toss together
  4. toss up
  5. toss'd
  6. toss-pot
  7. toss-pots
  8. toss-up
  9. toss-up question
  10. toss-up questions
  11. toss-ups

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