tosh
Plural: toshes
Noun
- Nonsense or rubbish; worthless talk.
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- Copper; items made of copper.
- Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- A bath or foot pan
- Easy bowling
- Used as a form of address.
- A half-crown coin; its value
- A crown coin; its value
- Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
Verb
- To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
- To search for valuables in sewers
- To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
- To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
Adj
- Tight.
- Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
- Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Adv
- Toshly: neatly, tidily
Examples
- His opponent’s excuse for a low score was pure TOSH, lacking any real merit.
Origin / Etymology
From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss.
Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.
Synonyms
baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, twaddle, nonsense
Scrabble Score: 7
tosh: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtosh: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tosh: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary