tosspot

Slurs like 'tosspot', 'left wing bigot' not useful.

If I had not been sitting next to someone I know and like, who also knew that tosspot has a more specific UK English meaning, I would probably not have screamed my way through my colleague’s talk so rudely.

I Am Pop Slag has advice for NASA, on Lily Rothman’s piece about the new will.i.am song broadcast to the Earth from Mars: Of  all the “musicians” on the planet, why would you pick this little talentless tosspot?

There have followed a number of articles in which the freedom to call Matt Lauer a #tosspot is placed on a line leading ultimately to the Arab Spring.

Among the sharply-worded tweets coming from Adams were: "Am I alone in wondering why NBColympics think its acceptable topretend this road race is being broadcast live?" and: "Matt Lauer: 'Madagascar, a location indelibly associated with a couple of recent animated movies.' #tosspot" Neither NBC nor Twitter were immediately commenting on the billowing furore.