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Definition tosh

Etymology 1

From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.

Noun

tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)

1. (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper
2. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
3. (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
4. (Britain, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
5. (cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling
6. (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.

Verb

tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)

1. (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
2. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
3. (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

Etymology 2

Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.

Adjective

tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
2. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
3. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

Adverb

tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)

1. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily

Verb

tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)

1. (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

Etymology 3

From 19th-century British slang tosheroon, from or alongside tusheroon, of uncertain derivation from British slang caroon (“crown, a 5-shilling silver coin”), from Sabir and (originally) Italian corona (“crown”). The term was either derived from or influenced by madza caroon, the British slang for the Sabir and Italian mezzo corona (“half-crown”), possibly under influence from tosh (“copper items; valuables”) above or from the half-crown's value of two shillings, sixpence.

Noun

tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)

1. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value
2. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value
3. (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

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