Great word! I wonder if that's how tossed came to mean drunk?
11 months ago Minerva said:Lovelace to Belford (Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson)
After all, methinks I want those tostications (thou seest how women, and women's words, fill my mind) to be over, happily over, that I may sit down quietly, and reflect upon the dangers I have passed through, and the troubles I have undergone.
That's a possibility; the word was originally a mispronunciation of intoxication.
Great word! I wonder if that's how tossed came to mean drunk?
After all, methinks I want those tostications (thou seest how women, and women's words, fill my mind) to be over, happily over, that I may sit down quietly, and reflect upon the dangers I have passed through, and the troubles I have undergone.