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Tosspot

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Tosspot
    A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) tosspot
    A toper; a tippler.
Usage in literature

How much less living would he be had he been called Mr. Soaker or Mr. Tosspot! "Play-Making" by William Archer

Pitchforking statesmen and tosspot reformers will be unable to play at pitch-and-toss with reputations not submitted for the performance. "The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays" by Ambrose Bierce

Why, man, I am Rob Paterson's tosspot. "Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17" by Alexander Leighton

Troops of old tosspots oft, to sot, consort. "Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853" by Various

Captain Tosspot he was called. "The Wine-ghosts of Bremen" by Wilhelm Hauff

But I'm afraid the old tosspot is not likely to be good for much. "Felix Holt, The Radical" by George Eliot