Tosheroon

Quick meaning: Tosheroon is a noun meaning (British, archaic slang) A half-crown coin; its value.

Meaning

(British, archaic slang) A half-crown coin; its value.

More Meanings

1. (British, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value

Example Sentences

‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown.

“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”

tush or tosh. Money: Cockney: late C.19–20. Ex: tusheroon... But H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

Word Forms

• tosheroons
• tossaroon

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tosh, half-a-crown, thick-un, half crown, tanner, twelver.

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