tosh in English dictionary

  • tosh

    Meanings and definitions of "tosh"

    • (chiefly UK) Silly nonsense; twaddle, balderdash.
    • adjective
      (Scotland, obsolete)
      Tight.
    • adjective
      (Scotland)
      Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
    • adjective
      (Scotland)
      Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
    • adverb
      (Scotland)
      Toshly: neatly, tidily
    • noun
      (Britain, obsolete slang, countable)
      A half-crown coin; its value
    • noun
      (Britain, obsolete slang, countable)
      A crown coin; its value
    • noun
      (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable)
      Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
    • noun
      (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable)
      Copper; items made of copper
    • noun
      (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable)
      Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
    • noun
      (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable)
      Rubbish, trash, ( now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
    • noun
      (Britain, archaic school slang, countable)
      A bath or foot pan
    • noun
      (cricket, slang, pejorative, uncountable)
      Easy bowling
    • noun
      (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable)
      Used as a form of address.
    • verb
      (Scotland)
      To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
    • verb
      (Britain, obsolete slang)
      To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
    • verb
      (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang)
      To search for valuables in sewers
    • verb
      (Britain, archaic school slang)
      To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
    • silly nonsense
    • noun
      pretentious or silly talk or writing

    Synonyms of "tosh" in English dictionary

    baloney, bilgewater, taradiddle are the top synonyms of "tosh" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of tosh

    • tosh ( uncountable)
    • tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)
    • tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)
    • tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)
    • tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)
  • TOSH

    Meanings and definitions of "tosh"

    • Acronym
      The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.
  • Tosh

    Meanings and definitions of "tosh"

    • proper
      A surname.

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