Tosspot is a British English and Irish English insult, used to refer to a stupid or contemptible person, or a drunkard. [1][2] The word is of Middle English origin, and meant a person who drank heavily. Beer or ale was customarily served in ceramic pots, so a tosspot was a person who copiously "tossed back" such pots of beer.

Originally a word for someone who is a drunkard, over-fond of ale, of tossing the pot of ale back. Earliest example of this known is in 16th century Elizabethan English, Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night", has the word in the closing part of the play, in Feste's song.

Come not in companie of blasphemous.. tosspots. The eggs of an owl put into the liquor that a tospot useth to be drunk with, will make him loathe drunkenness. They were sturdy toss pots of yore. He is..a brother tosspot. slang (chiefly British and Australian). A contemptible person, a …

2024年9月27日 · From toss +‎ pot. (colloquial, now rare) A drunkard, one who drinks alcohol frequently. The Muses shame to remember some fresh quaffers of Helicon; and which of the Graces or Virtues blusheth not to name some lusty tosspots of rhetoric? 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 2, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […]

The meaning of TOSSPOT is drunkard, sot.

[1560–70; toss + pot] This word is first recorded in the period 1560–70. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: bulb, bump, clinch, event, segment. 2 meanings: 1. …

Literary. a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated. British Slang: Disparaging. a contemptible person, idiot, or loser. archaic. slang. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & …

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2016年2月19日 · For my colleague, “tosspot” denominates a linguistic category: words taking the form of a transitive verb (“toss”) followed by a direct object of that verb (“pot”). The challenge with tosspots is to find as many of them as possible.

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