tosspot

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Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene Ysa�e, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life.

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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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Sir: It was surprising to learn from Upton Sinclair that Stephen Crane, the short-lived author of The Red Badge of Courage, is categorized as a tosspot.

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As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.

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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 Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)