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tosspots

tosspots is the plural 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

Questions about tosspots

What is tosspots the plural of?
Tosspots is the plural of tosspot.

Words near tosspots in the dictionary

  1. tossjobs
  2. tossment
  3. tosspiece
  4. tosspieces
  5. tosspot
  6. tosspots
  7. tosspottery
  8. tossup
  9. tossup question
  10. tossup questions
  11. tossups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tosspots (page history and authors); tosspot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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