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tosspot|ˈtɒspɒt, -ɔː-|
[f. phr. to toss a pot, toss v. 10 b.]
One accustomed to toss off his pot of drink; a heavy drinker; a toper, drunkard.
1568U. Fulwell Like Will to Like D j b, I wil pledge Tom tospot, til I be as drunk as a mouse a. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 153 Come not in companie of blasphemous tossepots. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. (1675) 76 The eggs of an owl put into the liquor that a tospot useth to be drunk with, will make him loathe drunkenness. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. vi. v. (1861) 204 They were sturdy toss-pots of yore. 1890Besant Demoniac iv, He is..a brother tosspot.
b. Comb., as ˈtosspotlike adv.
1580H. Gifford Gilloflowers (1875) 150 Doste thinke that such as tospotlike Set all at sixe and seuen, Are in a ready way to bring Their sinfull soules to heauen?
▸ slang (chiefly Brit. and Austral.). A contemptible person, a fool. Cf. tosser n. 1b.
Also as a colloquial form of address to a man: see quot. 1967.
1967E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1428/2 Tosspot, used as a jocular affectionate term of address (to men) in Australia. 1983T. Hibbert Rockspeak 160 Toss-pot. 1990Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Nov. (Weekend section) 7/4 A wimpish, handsome, rich tosspot, too weak to stand up to his mother. 1991Independent (Nexis) 8 Oct. 22 No wonder the French have got a high-speed rail link to the Chunnel and we've only got the Northern Line, with tosspots like you in charge. 2004R. Hamill Help me, I'm Irish! i. 8 He quickly composed himself. ‘Ya tosspot,’ he then said. ‘Ya toerag.’ ‘Ya pratt.’ ‘Ya fat bollox.’ |