"toss-pot" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: toss-pots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} toss-pot (plural toss-pots)
  1. (colloquial, now rare) Alternative form of tosspot Tags: alt-of, alternative, archaic, colloquial Alternative form of: tosspot
    Sense id: en-toss-pot-en-noun-v9FGKQOc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Epithalamium of Petrus Ægidius”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 261:",
          "text": "But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.",
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