tosh

noun toshes · tush

1. UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable Copper; items made of copper. The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of "Toshers," the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term "tosh," a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper.
2. UK, rare, slang, uncountable Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers. I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.
3. UK, slang, uncountable Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.
4. UK, countable A bath or foot pan A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
5. derogatory, slang, uncountable Easy bowling Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
6. UK, humorous, slang, uncountable Used as a form of address. 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?

Similar: nonsense

verb toshes · toshing · toshed · tush

1. UK, obsolete, slang To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
2. UK, slang, uncommon To search for valuables in sewers You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.
3. UK To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath" ‘Toshing’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding abo

adjective tosher · toshest

1. Scotland, obsolete Tight. Tosh, tight, neat.
2. Scotland Neat, clean; tidy, trim. I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh As a' the neighbours can tell.
3. Scotland Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. We were a very tosh and agreeable company.

adverb more tosh · most tosh

1. Scotland Toshly: neatly, tidily Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!

verb toshes · toshing · toshed

1. Scotland To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim. Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.

noun toshes · tush

1. UK, countable, obsolete, slang A half-crown coin; its value tush or tosh. Money: Cockney: late C.19–20. Ex: tusheroon... But H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.
2. UK, countable, obsolete, slang A crown coin; its value Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
3. UK, archaic, slang, uncountable Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

proper noun

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital

proper noun

1. A surname.

proper noun Tash

1. A Hassidic community
2. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada.
3. Synonym of Nyírtass (Nyírtass); A village in Hungary

   Similar: Nyírtass