wine tosser
- noun
- Informal
:
torpe con el vino
- Everyone at the dinner avoided the wine tosser after he knocked over two glasses.
Examples
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Julia laughed and called herself a wine tosser after spilling her second glass.
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As the designated wine tosser of the group, he wasn't allowed near the white tablecloth.
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Don't be such a wine tosser at the party!
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Last night, I saw a wine tosser spill red wine everywhere.
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As the designated wine tosser of the group, he wasn't allowed near the white tablecloth.
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Everyone at the dinner avoided the wine tosser after he knocked over two glasses.
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Julia laughed and called herself a wine tosser after spilling her second glass.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound clearly links 'wine' with an agentive form 'tosser', so a learner who knows both words can guess it’s a negative label for someone associated with wine (e.g., who tosses or mishandles it). However, the precise sense 'person who spills wine or behaves clumsily when handling wine' is not fully predictable because 'tosser' is primarily a slang insult rather than a transparent agent noun, so the specific behavioral nuance is only partially inferable.
Etymology
Wine tosser likely comes from the simple image of a clumsy guest who knocks over glasses and literally 'tosses' wine, with tosser suggesting someone who throws or spills; that's why it now means 'a person who spills wine or behaves clumsily at social events'.