Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tossing; especially, tossing the head as in scorn or contempt; hence, affectedly indifferent; pert; contemptuous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent.
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- adjective
Tossing thehead , as inscorn orpride ; hence,proud ,contemptuous ,affectedly indifferent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyway, I'll feel all tossy-turny if I don't at least provide some bullet points, especially on the matter of the Insane and Terrifying Full-Frontal Door Assault:
blog: February 2008 2008
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Anyway, I'll feel all tossy-turny if I don't at least provide some bullet points, especially on the matter of the Insane and Terrifying Full-Frontal Door Assault:
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An NYC Yahoo interviewed just a second ago on teevee was flippy and hair-tossy excited as she bemoans the fact that she has to go through all of this fuss at the airports now--I mean, she has to fly--come on, whatever way of traveling is there to these Generation Y-ers?
It's Velly British The Daily Growler 2006
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Lousy tossy-turny night, boss coming back a week earlier than originally planned, have to get up an hour earlier tomorrow to take the car in so they can fix the auto-unlock, grumble mutter... maybe I should just take it out on the new Pen-Elayne graffiti wall via Our Word... drop by and leave your pithy scrawlings!
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'I don't think it could ever be tossy and soapy here like it used to be at
The Rectory Children Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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"You've no call to be so tossy in your ways, Miss Mary," said Rice, the outspoken old nurse at the White House; "handsome is as handsome does."
A Pair of Clogs Amy Walton 1873
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"No, not so much of them; but I don't sleep as I should: feverish and tossy -- spend half my nights punching my pillow."
The Bag of Diamonds George Manville Fenn 1870
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It's OK, it seems, to yammer away on your tossy phone to your tossy mates.
Mirror.co.uk - News 2009
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I'm sure there's more but due to my tossy memory, that's all I've got for now.
www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive 2009
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I also spent some tossy-turny time last night struggling with The Accuser.
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