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tosspot

[taws-pot, tos-] / ˈtɔsˌpɒt, ˈtɒs- /


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

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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Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint.

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As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pitchforking statesmen and tosspot reformers will be unable to play at pitch-and-toss with reputations not submitted for the performance.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes


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