"toss-pot" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "toss-pots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "tosspot"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge",
          "text": "Between the hours at which the last toss-pot went by and the first sparrow shook himself, the silence in Casterbridge—barring the rare sound of the watchman—was broken in Elizabeth’s ear only by the time-piece in the bedroom ticking frantically against the clock on the stairs.",
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        "Alternative form of tosspot"
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        [
          "tosspot",
          "tosspot#English"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, now rare) Alternative form of tosspot"
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "colloquial"
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  ],
  "word": "toss-pot"
}

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      "form": "toss-pots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "tosspot"
        }
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge",
          "text": "Between the hours at which the last toss-pot went by and the first sparrow shook himself, the silence in Casterbridge—barring the rare sound of the watchman—was broken in Elizabeth’s ear only by the time-piece in the bedroom ticking frantically against the clock on the stairs.",
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      ],
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        "Alternative form of tosspot"
      ],
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          "tosspot",
          "tosspot#English"
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        "(colloquial, now rare) Alternative form of tosspot"
      ],
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  "word": "toss-pot"
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