tosspot

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Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene Ysa�e, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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Sir: It was surprising to learn from Upton Sinclair that Stephen Crane, the short-lived author of The Red Badge of Courage, is categorized as a tosspot.

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Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.

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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