squash...
puhekieltä copper Copper; items made of copper
1851, H. Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, II. 150/2
- The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of tosher Toshers, the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term ‘tosh’, a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper.
puhekieltä valuables Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place, v. 164
- I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.
puhekieltä rubbish Rubbish, trash, puhekieltä especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
1892 October 26, Oxford University Magazine, 26/1
- To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.
1911, w:H. G. Wells|H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ch. 5,
- Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.
1997, (w), (w), iv
‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’
‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon.
puhekieltä A bath or foot pan
1881, Leathes in C.E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, ii. 20
- A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
1905, H. A. Vachell, Hill, i
- We call a tub a tosh.
puhekieltä easy Easy bowling
1898 June 25, Tit-Bits, 252/3
- Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
puhekieltä Used as a form of address.
1954, E. Hyams, Stories & Cream, 175
- 'ere|'Ere, tosh, you been bin at Chatham|Cha'ham?
puhekieltä To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailors Word-book''
Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
puhekieltä To search for valuables in sewers
1974, J. Aiken, ''Midnight is Place vi. 180 You tend to the toshing, let mester Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.
puhekieltä To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
1883, J.P. Groves, From Cadet to Captain, iii. 227
- ‘Toshing’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding about three gallons of water) over the wretched lad's head.
1903, J. S. Farmer & al., Slang, VII. 171/1
- He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.
puhekieltä tight Tight.
1776, D. Herd, Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs
- Tosh, tight, neat.
puhekieltä neat Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
1794, J. Ritson, Scottish Songs, I. 99
- I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh
- As a' the neighbours can tell.
puhekieltä comfortable Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
1821, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine'', 10 4
- We were a very tosh and agreeable company.
puhekieltä toshly Toshly: neatly, tidily
1808, J. Mayne, Siller Gun, i. 20
- shouther Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!
puhekieltä To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
1826 November, J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, xxix, in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine'', 788
- how Hoo she would wad try to tosh up... her breast breest.
puhekieltä A half-crown coin; its value
1933, (w), (w), xxix
- ‘'ere|’Ere y'|y’are, the best rig out|rig-out you ever 'ad|’ad. A tosheroon half a crown for the coat, two 'og|’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a 'og|’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
- tush or tosh. Money: Cockney: late C.19–20. ex Ex: tusheroon... But w:John Camden Hotten|H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca madza caroon|MADZA CAROON.
1961, J. Maclaren-Ross, Doomsday Book, i. v. 63
Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer.
puhekieltä A crown coin; its value
1859, (w), (w)
- Half-a-crown is known as an (smallcaps), (smallcaps), (smallcaps), and a (smallcaps); whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a (smallcaps), or a (smallcaps), or a (smallcaps), or a (smallcaps), or a (smallcaps), or a (smallcaps).
1912, J.W. Horsley, I Remember, xii. 253
- ‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown.
puhekieltä Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
stone (small piece of stone)