tosspot
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Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trick Topper sequences: water in a shower bath bouncing off Miss Bennett's invisible figure; sheep dogs hurtling through the air; Roland Young, superb as a tosspot, reeling across the floor seemingly unsupported.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
I love a jolly gossip for a tosspot; for she gives more speech, and takes more liquor, than your 'breeked' steers that drink down the words, and drown them in the throat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
