Toss-pot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Toss-pot is a noun meaning (colloquial, now rare) Alternative form of tosspot.
Meaning
(colloquial, now rare) Alternative form of tosspot.
Example Sentences
Between the hours at which the last toss-pot went by and the first sparrow shook himself, the silence in Casterbridge—barring the rare sound of the watchman—was broken in Elizabeth’s ear only by the time-piece in the bedroom ticking frantically against the clock on the stairs.
But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.
Word Forms
- toss-pots
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include swillpot, pottlepot, swill-pot, pot-companion, potator, reel-pot.
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