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tosspot

tosspot

2 9.9
A person who often drinks too much and behaves foolishly
  • noun
  • /ˈtɑːspɒt/
  • Offensive
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  • Everyone in the bar knew he was just a foolish tosspot who never learned his lesson.
  • a real tosspot

Examples

  • If you're an arrogant, duck-faced tosspot, recognize the signs of when you're acting like a misogynist douchebag on a feminist site and chill your ego the fuck out.

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  • (Whatever I'll end up writing about JGB will make me sound like a right tosspot, so I think I'd better just say that he was/is as much of an influence on my life as John Peel and Tony Wilson, and then shut the hell up.)

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  • You know... I got a glad eye for a fellow tosspot.

  • Good day to you, Madame Tosspot.

  • MAN: Gerrit, you old tosspot!

  • I'm up for dealing with those tosspots.

  • Frog tosspot.

  • Do you have even the foggiest notion of how virtually impossible it is to get anything done in the face of events and facts and voters and that tsunami of tosspots we call "the national press"?

  • Marlowe, if one wanted to find an absolute nest of entitled and connected tosspots who feel they can just drive away after running over another drunk's head, you go to the Corbata Club.

  • After drinking all night, he was nothing more than a tosspot stumbling down the street.

Synonyms

drunk
vstosspot
  • Informal
137 3.5

A person who has too much alcohol in their body, either now or often

is older in tone and can mean either heavy drinker or fool
drunkard
vstosspot
17 5.5

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is an older word that can mean heavy drinker or foolish person
tosser
vstosspot
  • Offensive
8 9.9

A rude person who is annoying or stupid

is older in tone and can mean a heavy drinker as well as a fool
boozer
vstosspot
  • Offensive
3 9.4

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is older and can target either drinking habit or foolish character
rummy
vstosspot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who drinks alcohol too much

is an older, broader insult that can mean foolish person too
gink
vstosspot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A man who seems strange or foolish

shares the old-fashioned tone but also covers habitual drinking
tippler
vstosspot
  • Archaic
1 8.3

A person who often drinks alcohol like wine or beer

is older and more insulting, including foolish-person meaning
stinko
vstosspot
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A person who is extremely drunk

is older and describes a lasting character trait, not only an episode
inebriate
vstosspot
  • Offensive
1 9.8

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is the older, less formal term that also insults intelligence
soaker
vstosspot
  • Offensive
1 9.2

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is an older, more general insult that can mean fool as well
rubby
vstosspot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A slang word for a homeless person who drinks a lot of cheap alcohol

is older and broader, able to mean fool as well as drinker
lackwit
vstosspot
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who is silly and not very clever

is vintage in tone but also targets drinking habit occasionally
town drunkard
vstosspot
  • Offensive
8.1

A person in a town who often drinks too much and people know it

is an older insult that can mean heavy drinker or a fool
winebibber
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who drinks too much wine

shares the vintage tone but applies to drinkers or fools
likker
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who drinks alcohol too often and gets drunk

is older in style and can also call someone foolish
total pisshead
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who drinks too much alcohol

is older and less coarse while also meaning a foolish person
bar fly
vstosspot
  • Slang
8.1

A person who spends a lot of time drinking at bars

is older and can describe either habitual drinking or foolishness
benet
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who is simple and easily fooled

is older too but can mean heavy drinker as well as simple person
dingling
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who acts silly or foolish

is older and can insult foolishness or criticize drinking habit
looby
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A clumsy person who often makes silly mistakes

is similarly old-fashioned but also covers habitual heavy drinking
moper
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

An old word for a person who is foolish or slow to understand

is older but may also refer to drinking behaviour rather than only simplicity
bum head
vstosspot
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who behaves in a silly or careless way

is older and harsher, often implying a drinking habit too

Antonyms

269 3.2

Not having drunk alcohol or taken drugs

How Drunk

alcoholic
222 3.3
drunkard
17 5.5
tosspot
  • Offensive
2 9.9
drinker
83 1.8
nondrinker
1 4.8

Surface Forms

tosspot singular
tosspots plural

Morphology

tosspot = toss + pot (semi-transparent) = toss + pot

The components 'toss' and 'pot' are recognisable, but the figurative sense 'habitual drunkard/fool' requires cultural/historical inference and is not immediately derivable for an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Tosspot comes from the old image of someone who 'tossed' back pots of drink — the parts toss ('to tip or throw') and pot ('a drinking container'). A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a person quickly tipping one pot after another, which is why tosspot became an old name for a heavy drinker or a foolish person.