tosser n.1
1. a (large) penis.
![]() | ‘Sub-Umbra, or Sport among the She-noodles’ in Pearl 2 Aug. 5: By Jove, Frank! what a tosser yours has grown since we used to play in bed together a long time ago. I’ll lock the door, we must compare our parts. | |
![]() | Sins of the Cities of the Plain 13: ‘Did you ever see a finer tosser in your life?’ he replied, opening his trousers and exposing a tremendous prick. |
2. (Aus.) an affectionate term of address.
![]() | Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 100: Any son of Tosser McKenzie’s a mate of mine. |
3. (also toss) a despicable, worthless person [the underlying ref. is to masturbation, but the word is not found as ‘a masturbator’ ].
![]() | Zigzag Apr. 40/3: She came on in a big mac and flashed her legs like an old tosser before throwing it off . | |
![]() | Commitments 6: I’m Derek fuckin’ Scully, an’ I’m not a tosser. | |
![]() | Wolfman 50: This Jock, this rough-looking tosser in ill-fitting gear. | |
![]() | Acid House 78: It disnae matter a fuck whit some fuckin toss in the Labour Party [...] sais. | ‘A Blockage in the System’ in|
![]() | Glue 51: Ah’m no gaunny even talk tae a toss like that. | |
![]() | Gift 305: Never trust anyone who wears red trousers. They’re a tosser. | |
![]() | Truth 276: Check the Spirit of Tasmania crew. They’re tossers. | |
![]() | Guardian 26 Mar. 3/2: He enlists shoppers [...] to wave placards, wear David Cameron and Nick Clegg masks and mouth ‘Tosser!’. | |
![]() | in Guardian 30 June 🌐 Just watched the clip [of Boris Johnson]. What an f'ing tosser. | |
![]() | Good Girl Stripped Bare 57: We [i.e. Queenslanders] think Sydneysiders are tossers. But a lot of us want to be those tossers. | |
![]() | February’s Son 90: ‘Had to get rid of that tosser before he started annoying the boss any more. Stupid arse’. | |
![]() | Empty Wigs (t/s) 297: Tosser. I ignored his little digs. Turned the other cheek. |
In derivatives
the notional world of sense 3.
![]() | Guardian Sport 13 May 12: Who wants to waste time hearing about a bunch of geezers knocking a ball around back in the mists of old tosserdom. |