Meaning of toss-pot | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“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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