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The term tosspot, has come to be a synonym for 'tosser', someone who 'tosses' or masturbates (as opposed to a sexpot). It is generally used as a term of abuse. However, it originally referred to commodes as used in medieval London. This is evidenced by the final song in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare:

When that I was and a little tiny boy,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

A foolish thing was but a toy,

For the rain it raineth every day.


But when I came to man's estate,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gates,

For the rain it raineth every day.


But when I came, alas! to wive,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

By swaggering could I never thrive,

For the rain it raineth every day.


But when I came unto my beds,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

With toss-pots still had drunken heads,

For the rain it raineth every day.


A great while ago the world begun,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,

But that's all one, our play is done,

And we'll strive to please you every day.

In the United States during the late 1930s, Toss-Pot was also used to mean a thrower of an empty alcohol beverage container, usually at another person. It was sometimes used as an humorous endearment at historically early Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.