adj
Meaning 1
Tight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
tosh
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɒʃ/
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General-American: /tɑʃ/
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Australian: /tɔʃ/
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New-Zealand: /tɒʃ/
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New-Zealand: [tɔ̟ʃ]
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rhymes with -ɒʃ
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CMU ARPABET: T AA1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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adj
Meaning 3
Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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adv
Meaning 4
Toshly: neatly, tidily
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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name
Meaning 5
Acronym of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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name
Meaning 6
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 7
A Hassidic community
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name
Meaning 8
Ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Meaning 9
Synonym of Nyírtass (Nyírtass); A village in Hungary
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Nyírtass
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noun
Meaning 10
Copper; items made of copper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 11
Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, rare, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 13
A bath or foot pan
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable
Qualifier: archaic school slang
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noun
Meaning 14
Easy bowling
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slang, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 15
Used as a form of address.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, humorous, slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 16
A half-crown coin; its value
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, slang
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noun
Meaning 17
A crown coin; its value
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, slang
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noun
Meaning 18
Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, slang, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 19
To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, slang
Examples
- Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
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verb
Meaning 20
To search for valuables in sewers
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang, uncommon
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verb
Meaning 21
To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Qualifier: archaic school slang
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verb
Meaning 22
To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 23
pretentious or silly talk or writing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, twaddle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
History
Etymology
Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.
From Yiddish טאהש (Tosh), from Hebrew טאהש (Tash).
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.
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.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: Tash — Nyírtass
- French: Tosh — Nyírtass
- French: Tass — Nyírtass
- French: Nyírtass — Nyírtass
- German: Tass — Nyírtass
- German: Tash — Nyírtass
- German: Tausch — Nyírtass
- German: Nyírtass — Nyírtass
- Hebrew: טאהש (Tosh) — Nyírtass
- Hungarian: Nyírtass — Nyírtass
- Polish: Nyírtass — Nyírtass
- Yiddish: טאַהש (tash) — Nyírtass
- French: Tash — Kiryas Tosh
- French: Tosh — Kiryas Tosh
- Hebrew: טאהש (Tosh) — Kiryas Tosh
- Polish: Kiryas Tosh — Kiryas Tosh
- Yiddish: טאַהש (tash) — Kiryas Tosh
- Bulgarian: празни приказки (prazni prikazki) — silly nonsense
- Dutch: onzin — silly nonsense
- Dutch: zever — silly nonsense
- Dutch: gebrabbel — silly nonsense
- Finnish: höpö-höpö — silly nonsense
- French: conneries — silly nonsense
- Hungarian: ostobaság — silly nonsense
- Hungarian: zagyvaság — silly nonsense
- Hungarian: butaság — silly nonsense
- Hungarian: hülyeség — silly nonsense
- Italian: castroneria — silly nonsense
- Polish: bzdury — silly nonsense
- Polish: banialuki — silly nonsense
- Polish: niedorzeczności — silly nonsense