tosh

Meaning

Adv

Toshly: neatly, tidily

Noun

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

Verb

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

Adj

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

Verb

To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

Noun

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

Synonyms

tommyrot

twaddle

humbug

claptrap

drool

baloney

bilgewater

nonsense

boloney

taradiddle

rubbish

bosh

tarradiddle

snake oil

fluff

hooey

poppycock

trash

applesauce

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɒʃ/

Etymology

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