Tosh

Quick meaning: Tosh is a noun meaning (uncountable, British, slang, obsolete) Copper; items made of copper.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, chiefly British, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
2. (UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
3. (cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling
4. (UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
5. (British, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
6. (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
7. (chiefly British, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers

Example Sentences

We call a tub a tosh.

A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.

I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.

To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.

Word Forms

• toshes
• toshing
• toshed
• tosher
• toshest

Synonyms for tosh

Depending on context, synonyms include nonsense, tarradiddle, twaddle, bosh, drool, taradiddle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include taradiddle, bilgewater, drool, humbug, boloney, baloney.

Related Dictionary Tools