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Definition of Tosspots
1. tosspot [n] - See also: tosspot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tosspots
Literary usage of Tosspots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum Plena Sunt Omnia by Thomas Dekker, John Nott (1812)
"... together with the most notorious qualities of the truest tosspots, as "when
to cast, when to quarrel, plicable, occur in another of Decker's tracts, ..."
2. London by Walter Besant (1892)
"... and whether he took it out of a glass or a silver mazer or a black jack, he
took it joyfully, and he took it abundantly. tosspots and ..."
3. Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856)
"With tosspots still had drunken heads. The triplet, sir, is a good tripping measure.
A contract, and eternal bond of love. Hold little faith. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"Troops of old tosspots oft, to sot, consort. Box tops, not bottoms, schoolboys
flog for sport. No cool monsoons blow soft on Oxford dons, Orthodox, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"... Troops of old tosspots oft, to sot, consort. Box tops, not bottoms, school-boys
flog Si tfo cool monsoons blow ioft on Oxford dona, ..."
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