tosspot

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But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan the Rev. Charles S. Webster saw fit to say that the Scottish poet was not the irreligious tosspot he had been made out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I love a jolly gossip for a tosspot; for she gives more speech, and takes more liquor, than your 'breeked' steers that drink down the words, and drown them in the throat.

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