tosh
/tɒʃ/
noun
- 1
Copper; items made of copper
- 2
Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
- 3
Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- 4
A bath or foot pan
- 5
Easy bowling
- 6
Used as a form of address.
verb
- 1
To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
“1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book”
- 2
To search for valuables in sewers
- 3
To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
verb
- 1
To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
adjective
- 1
Tight.
- 2
Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
- 3
Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
adverb
- 1
Toshly: neatly, tidily
noun
- 1
A half-crown coin; its value
- 2
A crown coin; its value
- 3
Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
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