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Definitions of tosspot in various dictionaries:
A drunkard.
noun - one who is habitually drunk
TOSSPOT - Tosspot is a British English insult, used to refer to a stupid or contemptible person, or a drunkard.The word is of Middle English origin, and meant ...
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Tosspot is a British 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 Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The morality play Like Will to Like, by Shakespeare's contemporary Ulpian Fulwell, contains a character named Tom Tosspot, who remarks that* "If any poore man have in a whole week earned a grote, * He shal spend it in one houre in tossing the pot".Tosspot is also a character in the traditional British Pace Egg play or Mummers play.In the Pace Egging Song which accompanies the play the verse for "Old Tosspot" is; * * As with most traditional folk songs the exact words vary. * In the chapter "Step Eight" of the Alcoholics Anonymous book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions by Bill Wilson, the |