tosspot

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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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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.

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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