tosh

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɒʃ/ (General American) IPA(key): /tɑʃ/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /tɔʃ/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /tɒʃ/, [tɔ̟ʃ] Rhymes: -ɒʃ === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== Alternative forms ==== (nonsense) tush ==== Noun ==== tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes) (uncountable, British, slang, obsolete) Copper; items made of copper. (uncountable, chiefly British, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers. (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash (UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan 1881, Leathes in C.E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, ii. 20 A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided. (cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling 1898 June 25, Tit-Bits, 252/3 Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness. (UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address. ===== Synonyms ===== See Thesaurus:nonsense ===== Derived terms ===== pish tosh, pish and tosh toshy, toshing ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed) (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. (chiefly British, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers (UK, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath" ===== Derived terms ===== tosh up === Etymology 2 === Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure. ==== Adjective ==== tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest) (Scotland, obsolete) Tight. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. ===== Derived terms ===== toshy, toshly ==== Adverb ==== tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh) (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily ==== Verb ==== tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed) (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim. 1826 November, J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, xxix, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 788 Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest. === Etymology 3 === From 19th-century British slang tosheroon, from or alongside tusheroon, of uncertain derivation from British slang caroon (“crown, a 5-shilling silver coin”), from Sabir and (originally) Italian corona (“crown”). The term was either derived from or influenced by madza caroon, the British slang for the Sabir and Italian mezzo corona (“half-crown”), possibly under influence from tosh (“copper items; valuables”) above or from the half-crown's value of two shillings & sixpence. ==== Alternative forms ==== tush ==== Noun ==== tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes) (British, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value (British, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value (British, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage === References === Oxford English Dictionary. "tosh, n.1-5, adj. & adv., and v.1-2". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1913 & 1986. “tosh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words. James Camden Hotten (London), 1859. The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge (London), 1961. === Anagrams === HOTs, Soth, Thos., host, hots, oths, shot == Uzbek == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tiāĺ. Cognate of Turkish and Azerbaijani taş, Kazakh тас (tas), Chuvash чул (čul) etc. === Pronunciation === (standard) IPA(key): /tɒʃ/, [t̪ɒ̽ʃ] (Khorazm dialect) IPA(key): /dɒːʃ/ Hyphenation: tosh === Noun === tosh (plural toshlar) stone, rock Synonym: qoya ==== Declension ====