tosh

(Английский)

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

Произносится как (IPA)

/tɒʃ/

Этимология (Английский)

Родственно старофранцузский: tonce

Родственно английский: tonsure

In summary

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

Синонимы

tommyrot

twaddle

humbug

claptrap

drool

baloney

bilgewater

nonsense

boloney

taradiddle

rubbish

bosh

tarradiddle

snake oil

fluff

hooey

poppycock

trash

applesauce

Переводы

onzin

Quatsch

sciocchezze

bêtise

Fez

bêtises

disbarat

Schmonzes

poca-soltada

Nebbich

αηδίες

balivernes

Unsinn

Stuss

bajanades