Meaning of tosh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A surname.
3. A Hassidic community
4. Copper; items made of copper.
   British, obsolete, slang, uncountable
5. A half-crown coin; its value
   British, countable, obsolete, slang
6. Ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
   British, rare, slang, uncountable
8. A crown coin; its value
   British, countable, obsolete, slang
9. Synonym of Nyírtass (Nyírtass); A village in Hungary
10. Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
    British, slang, uncountable
11. Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
    British, archaic, slang, uncountable
12. A bath or foot pan
    UK, countable
13. Easy bowling
    derogatory, slang, uncountable
14. Used as a form of address.
    UK, humorous, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.”

“To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.”

“Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.”

“‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’ ‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon.”

“A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.”

“We call a tub a tosh.”

“Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.”

“'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?”

“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.”

“Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer.”

“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.”

“‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown.”

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