tosspot

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Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church.

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.

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Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.

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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.

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"Here, my good old tosspot, Will Pearson!" said he, as he handed to him one of the flasks.

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