tosh
(noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
adjective
1. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
2. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
3. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
adverb
1. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily
noun
1. pretentious or silly talk or writing
Similar word(s): baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, twaddle
Definition categories: communication, bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
Sentences with tosh as a noun:
- 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv ‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon.
- 1961, J. Maclaren-Ross, Doomsday Book, i. v. 63 Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer.
verb
1. (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
2. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
3. (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
4. (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.