tosh

noun9

1. •
   (UK, slang) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash

   • To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too. — 1892
2. •
   (slang, disapproving) Easy bowling

   • Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness. — 1898
3. •
   (UK, slang) Used as a form of address.

   • 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham? — 1954
4. •
   (slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.

   • I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn. — 1974
5. •
   (UK) A bath or foot pan

   • A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided. — 1881
6. •
   (slang, no longer used) A half-crown coin; its value

   • Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer. — 1961
7. •
   (slang, no longer used) A crown coin; its value

   • ‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown. — 1912
8. •
   (slang, no longer used) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
9. •
   (slang, no longer used) Copper; items made of copper.

adjective3

1. •
   (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.

   • I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh As a' the neighbours can tell. — 1794
2. •
   (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

   • We were a very tosh and agreeable company. — 1821
3. •
   (Scotland, no longer used) Tight.

   • Tosh, tight, neat. — 1776

verb4

1. •
   (UK, slang) To search for valuables in sewers

   • You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing. — 1974
2. •
   (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

   • Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest. — 1826
3. •
   (UK) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

   • He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred. — 1903
4. •
   (slang, no longer used) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

   • Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.

adverb1

1. •
   (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily

   • Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw! — 1808

noun2

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