TOSH

baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle

(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Proper noun

Tosh

A surname.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Tosh (plural er-noun)

A Hassidic community

Ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh.; A neighbourhood in Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada

synonym of Nyírtass (Nyírtass); A village in Hungary

Anagrams

• HOTs, Thos., host, hots, oths, shot

Proper noun

TOSH

Acronym of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.

Anagrams

• HOTs, Thos., host, hots, oths, shot

Etymology 1

Noun

tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)

(British, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper

(chiefly, British, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains

(chiefly, British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash

(UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan

(cricket, slang, disparaging, uncountable) Easy bowling

(UK, jocular slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.

Synonyms

• See nonsense

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

(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"

Etymology 2

Adjective

tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)

(Scotland, obsolete) Tight.

(Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.

(Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

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.

Etymology 3

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

Anagrams

• HOTs, Thos., host, hots, oths, shot

Source: Wiktionary


Tosh, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. tonce shorn, clipped, and E. tonsure.]

Definition: Neat; trim. [Scot.] Jomieson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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