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- Dictionarytosspot/ˈtɒspɒt/
noun
- 1. a stupid or obnoxious person: informal, derogatory British "anyone who writes to us is a complete tosspot"
- 2. a heavy drinker. archaic
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Insult in British English
Tosspot is a British English and Irish English insult, used to refer to a stupid or contemptible person, or a drunkard. The word is of Middle English origin, and meant a person who drank heavily. Beer or ale was customarily served in ceramic pots, so a tosspot was a person who copiously "tossed back" such pots of beer. The word "tosspots" appears in relation to drunkenness in the song which closes... Wikipedia