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Tosser

Definition: Tosser

Tosser

Noun

1. Terms of abuse for a masturbator.

2. Someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Tosser

DomainDefinition

Slang

A disliked person, an annoying person. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Tosser

Synonyms: jerk-off (n), wanker (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tosser

Specialty definitions using "tosser": Cup Tosser. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tosser

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You are an immature little tosser. (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant)

Movie/TV Titles

Tone og tosser Takt (1925)

The Bull Tosser (1924)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tosser

"Tosser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tosser" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2274,468

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tosser

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tosser

14

salad tosser

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tosser

Language Translations for "tosser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

トキソプラズマ症 (18-wheeler, articulated lorry, galvanized sheet iron, latest fashion, pepper game, semi-trailer, Thomas Cup, toboggan, toffy, toggle, toggle switch, Tom, tomahawk, tomato, tomato ketchup, tomato puree, tommy gun, tomography, tom-tom, toner, tonic, tonic water, tony tie, top, top ball, top batter, top class, top condition, top down, top fashion, top gear, top group, top hat, top lady, top management, top news, top runner, top scene, top secret, top seller, top spin, top star, topaze, topcoat, top-domain, topic, topic news, topics, topless, top-level, top-note, topological, topology, topper, topping, toss, toss batting, totocalcio, toxoplasmosis, Toyota, tractor, tractor-trailer, tragedy, tragic, tragi-comedie, transistor glamour, trauma, triad, trial, trial and error, triangle, tri-athlete, triathlon, tribalism, tricycle, Trident, trijet, Tristar, truss, trust, try, zinc). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トサー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ossertay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tosser

Derivations

Words beginning with "tosser": tossers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tosser"

Words rhyming with "tosser" (pronounced 'Toss"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tosser

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rosets, sorest, stores, torses, tsores.

Words within the letters "e-o-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: rests, roses, roset, rotes, sores, sorts, store, tores, torse, tress.

-2 letters: eros, erst, ores, orts, oses, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sers, sets, sore, sort, sots, toes, tore, tors, toss.

-3 letters: ers, ess, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, ser, set, sos, sot, toe, tor.

-4 letters: er, es, et, oe.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: corsets, costers, escorts, estrous, forests, fosters, horstes, nestors, oestrus, ostlers, ousters, oysters, posters, prestos, resorts, respots, rosiest, rosters, scoters, sectors, sorbets, sorites, sorters, sorties, sourest, souters, stereos, sterols, stokers, stoners, stopers, storeys, stories, stoures, stovers, strobes, strokes, tensors, tossers, trioses, tussore, votress, worsets, zosters.

 

+2 letters: aerosats, assentor, assertor, assorted, assorter, bestrows, boasters, bolsters, boosters, coarsest, coasters, corslets, costrels, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, crustose, defrosts, destroys, dosseret, earshots, erotisms, espartos, estovers, estriols, estrones, fortress, frosteds, gorsiest, grossest, hoarsest, hoisters, holsters, horsiest, hostlers, hotpress, jostlers, jousters, kurtoses, lobsters, maestros, mobsters, monsters, mortises, oersteds, oestrins, oestrous, oestrums, oldsters, oratress, orthoses, outdress, outpress, outserts, oversets, portless, portress, posterns, postures, presorts, prosects, prosiest, prosties, protases, protests, questors, reassort, reposits, reshoots, resistor, resojets, restocks, restokes, restores, ripostes, roasters, roisters, roosters, rootless, rosettes, rousters, roysters, scooters, scouters, seaports, senators, serosity, settlors, sheroots, shooters, shortens, shortest, shorties, shouters, smothers, snorters, soberest, solerets, somerset, songster, soothers, sorbates, sorbents, sorriest, southers, sporters, spotters, spouters, starnose, stentors, sternson, steroids, stertors, stockers, stompers, stookers, stoopers, stoppers, storages, storaxes, stressor, strettos, strigose, strokers, strophes, stroyers, strumose, swotters, toasters, tonsures, torsades, treasons, tressour, triposes, trisomes, trousers, trowsers, tussores, tutoress, votaress, worsteds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tosser


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 73 73 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    ...    ...    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#115 &#115 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0073 0073 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548185857184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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