tosspot

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As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood.

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Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.

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Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church.

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How? soul of a pickle-herring, body of a spagirical tosspot, doublet of motley, and mantle of pilgrim, how art thou transmuted!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various