Re: Colonial /r/'s

From: tgpedersen
Message: 36636
Date: 2005-03-04

> > toss-pot (some Australian sitcom) cf. Danish tosse "idiot,
> > fool", and cf Danish gnavpot "sourpuss".
>
> I don't see a parallel: a tosspot is 'One accustomed to
> toss off his pot of drink; a heavy drinker; a toper,
> drunkard', attested by 1568.
>

And the quote is from where?

Torsten