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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