tosh

Signification (Anglais)

Adv

Toshly: neatly, tidily

Noun

1. (British, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper.
2. (British, rare, slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
3. (British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
4. (UK, countable) A bath or foot pan
5. (derogatory, slang, uncountable) Easy bowling
6. (UK, humorous, slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.

Verb

1. (British, obsolete, slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
2. (British, slang, uncommon) To search for valuables in sewers
3. (UK) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

Adj

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
2. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
3. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

Verb

To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

Noun

1. (British, countable, obsolete, slang) A half-crown coin; its value
2. (British, countable, obsolete, slang) A crown coin; its value
3. (British, archaic, slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

Concepts

bêtise

bêtises

galimatias

sottise

connerie

fadaise

niaiserie

p

balivernes

sornettes

Synonymes

tommyrot

twaddle

humbug

claptrap

drool

baloney

bilgewater

nonsense

boloney

taradiddle

rubbish

bosh

tarradiddle

snake oil

fluff

hooey

poppycock

trash

applesauce

Traductions

onzin

sciocchezze

Quatsch

disbarat

Fez

sciocchezza

poca-soltada

Unsinn

Schmonzes

Nebbich

αηδίες

scemenze

Stuss

bajanades

ximpleria

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɒʃ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à ancien français: tonce

Appartenant à anglais: tonsure

In summary

Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.