Tosh

/tɒʃ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of "Toshers," the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term "tosh," a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper.

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.

Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.

‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’ ‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon.

A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.

We call a tub a tosh.

Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.

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Word Forms

• toshes
• tush
• toshing
• toshed
• tosher
• toshest
• more tosh
• most tosh

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