tosh
/tɒʃ/ · noun
Meaning
- Copper; items made of copper
- Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
- Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- A bath or foot pan
- Easy bowling
- Used as a form of address.
- To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
- To search for valuables in sewers
- To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
- To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
- Tight.
- Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
- Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
- Toshly: neatly, tidily
- A half-crown coin; its value
- A crown coin; its value
- Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
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