tosspot
Example Sentences
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Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.
From Time Magazine Archive
These guiding principles are advanced with brisk savvy in Royal Flash, which has to do with the exploits of Captain Harry Flashman, a rogue, prig, tosspot and coward, and proud of every bit of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.
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
