[tied] Re: Colonial /r/'s

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> 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.

Not contemporary with the first attestation, then.


Torsten