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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent;

as, a

tossy

commonplace

[R.]

C. Kingsley.

tossy ‎(comparative more tossy, superlative most tossy)

(dated) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud, contemptuous, affectedly indifferent.
- Charles Kingsley
  "Honoria, take your feet off my dress. Argemone, my child, I hope you spent a pleasant evening?"
  Argemone answered by some tossy commonplace.