tosh
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Copper; items made of copper.
- Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- A bath or foot pan
- Easy bowling
- Used as a form of address.
- A half-crown coin; its value
- A crown coin; its value
- Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
Verb
- 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.
Adjective
- Tight.
- Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
- Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Adverb
- Toshly: neatly, tidily
Proper noun
- A surname.
- A Hassidic community
- Ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada.
- Synonym of Nyírtass (Nyírtass); A village in Hungary
- Acronym of The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital.
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