Re: [tied] Re: Colonial /r/'s

At 10:07:52 on Friday, 4 March 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

>>> 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?

OED.

Brian