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They were uniformly great tosspots and great guys.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Aye, but, bold tosspots," laughed Jocelyn, "how now, sit ye without wine in very truth?"

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery

Troops of old tosspots oft, to sot, consort.

From Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Bold bawcocks, brave, bibulous, babbling boys,   Tall tosspots, come, temper this tumult and noise;   So shall I sing sweetly such songs as shall sure   Constrain carking care and contumacy cure.

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery

Guysers, reekers, gossips, and tosspots, laid down their songs, their horns, their scandal, and their stoups, and acknowledged their Hogmanay occupation gone.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay