tosh

/tษ’สƒ/

IPA: /T AA1 SH/

noun
  1. 1

    Copper; items made of copper

  2. 2

    Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains

  3. 3

    Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash

  4. 4

    A bath or foot pan

  5. 5

    Easy bowling

  6. 6

    Used as a form of address.

verb
  1. 1

    To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

    โ€œ1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-bookโ€

  2. 2

    To search for valuables in sewers

  3. 3

    To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

verb
  1. 1

    To make โ€˜toshโ€™: to tidy, to trim.

adjective
  1. 1

    Tight.

  2. 2

    Neat, clean; tidy, trim.

  3. 3

    Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

adverb
  1. 1

    Toshly: neatly, tidily

noun
  1. 1

    A half-crown coin; its value

  2. 2

    A crown coin; its value

  3. 3

    Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tosh