tosh

Etymology 1
From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of origin. Perhaps from, a metathetic alteration of ; or from. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by attested from 15th century.

Alternative forms

 * tush

Noun

 * 1)  Copper; items made of copper.
 * 2)  Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
 * 3)  Rubbish, trash,  nonsense, bosh, balderdash
 * 4)  A bath or foot pan
 * 5) * 1881, Leathes in C.E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, ii. 20
 * A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
 * 1)  Easy bowling
 * 2) * 1898 June 25, Tit-Bits, 252/3
 * Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
 * 1)  Used as a form of address.
 * A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
 * 1)  Easy bowling
 * 2) * 1898 June 25, Tit-Bits, 252/3
 * Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
 * 1)  Used as a form of address.
 * 1)  Used as a form of address.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:nonsense

Translations

 * Bulgarian: празни приказки
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian:

Verb

 * 1)  To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
 * 2) * Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
 * 3)  To search for valuables in sewers
 * 4)  To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
 * 1)  To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
 * 1)  To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

Etymology 2
Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  Tight.
 * 2)  Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
 * 3)  Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
 * 1)  Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
 * 1)  Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

Adverb

 * 1)  Toshly: neatly, tidily

Verb

 * 1)  To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
 * 2) * 1826 November, J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, xxix, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 788
 * Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.

Etymology 3
From 19th-century British slang, from or alongside , of uncertain derivation from British slang , from and (originally). The term was either derived from or influenced by, the British slang for the and , possibly under influence from  above or from the half-crown's value of two shillings & sixpence.

Noun

 * 1)  A half-crown coin; its value
 * 2)  A crown coin; its value
 * 3)  Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
 * 1)  A crown coin; its value
 * 2)  Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
 * 1)  Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
 * 1)  Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) stone (small piece of stone)