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tosser

noun

tosser is spelled T-O-S-S-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tosser means “One who tosses or throws something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tosser is tossers.

How many letters and syllables are in tosser?

Letters6: T-O-S-S-E-R
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 65,114th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is tosser?

Tosser appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce tosser?

  • UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-tosser.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tosser

  • tossers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tosser mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who tosses or throws something.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryslangvulgarA person who masturbates.

  3. 3

    CommonwealthIrelandUKderogatoryoffensiveslangAn objectionable person, often somewhat obnoxious in demeanour.

    That bloke who ripped me off was a right tosser.

  4. 4

    A program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does tosser come from?

From toss + -er. In the British slang senses, toss refers specifically to the masturbate meaning.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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