tosh

Meanings

1. Copper; items made of copper.
2. Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
3. Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
4. A bath or foot pan
5. Easy bowling
6. Used as a form of address.

1. To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
2. To search for valuables in sewers
3. To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

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

1. Toshly: neatly, tidily

1. To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

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

1. Acronym of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.

1. A surname.

1. A Hassidic community
2. Ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada.
3. Synonym of Nyírtass (Nyírtass); A village in Hungary

Etymology

From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.