See also: TOSH and Tosh

English [ edit ]

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Etymology 1 [ edit ]

From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.

Alternative forms [ edit ]

( nonsense ) tush

Noun [ edit ]

tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)

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tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)

( Britain , obsolete slang ) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls 1867 , W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book

, W. H. Smyth, Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores. ( , uncommon chiefly Britain uncommon slang ) To search for valuables in sewers 1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place, vi. 180 You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing. ( Britain , archaic school slang ) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath" 1883 , J.P. Groves, From Cadet to Captain , iii. 227 ‘ Toshing ’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding about three gallons of water) over the wretched lad's head.

, J.P. Groves, , iii. 227 1903, J. S. Farmer & al., Slang, VII. 171/1 He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.

Etymology 2 [ edit ]

Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.

Adjective [ edit ]

tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)

( Scotland , obsolete ) Tight. 1776, D. Herd, Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs Tosh, tight, neat. ( Scotland ) Neat, clean; tidy, trim. 1794, J. Ritson, Scottish Songs, I. 99 I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh As a' the neighbours can tell. ( Scotland ) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. 1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 10 4 We were a very tosh and agreeable company.

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Adverb [ edit ]

tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)

( Scotland ) Toshly: neatly, tidily 1808, J. Mayne, Siller Gun, i. 20 Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!

Verb [ edit ]

tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)

( Scotland ) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim. 1826 November, J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, xxix, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 788 Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.

Etymology 3 [ edit ]

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.

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Noun [ edit ]

tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)

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Uzbek [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From Proto-Turkic *diāĺ.

Noun [ edit ]

tosh (plural toshlar)