tosh
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(British, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Copper; items made of copper.
- 2.
(British, rare, slang, uncountable)(uncountable, chiefly British, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- 3.
(British, slang, uncountable)(chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- 4.
(UK, countable)(UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
- 5.
(derogatory, slang, uncountable)(cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling
Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
- 6.
(UK, humorous, slang, uncountable)(UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
- 7.
(British, countable, obsolete, slang)(British, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value
- 8.
(British, countable, obsolete, slang)(British, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value
- 9.
(British, archaic, slang, uncountable)(British, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
Động từ
verb- 1.
(British, obsolete, slang)(British, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
- 2.
(British, slang, uncommon)(chiefly British, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
- 3.
(UK)(UK, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
- 4.
(Scotland)To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(Scotland, obsolete)Tight.
- 2.
(Scotland)Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
- 3.
(Scotland)Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(Scotland)Toshly: neatly, tidily
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From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of 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.