Definition of TOSH

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.

Scrabble Score: 7

tosh: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
tosh: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tosh: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

tosh: valid Words With Friends Word