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▪ I. tosh, n.1 School slang.|tɒʃ|
A bath; a footpan. Also tosh-can, tosh-pan.
1881Leathes in Pascoe Life Publ. Sch. ii. 20 A ‘tosh’ pan..is also provided. 1883Tosh-can [see tosh v.2]. 1905H. A. Vachell The Hill i, We call a tub a tosh. Ibid. iii, His feet were thrust into a ‘tosh’ filled with steaming water.
▪ II. tosh, n.2 slang.|tɒʃ|
Bosh, trash; nonsense, rubbish, twaddle; in Cricket, see quot. 1898.
1892Oxf. Univ. Mag. 26 Oct. 26/1 To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too. 1898Tit-Bits 25 June 252/3 Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness. 1906E. V. Lucas Listener's Lure (1909) 36 This London business seems to me the most awful tosh.
Hence toshy |ˈtɒʃɪ| a.1 slang, trashy, rubbishy.
1902Belloc Path to Rome 163 The poor public..is driven back to toshy novels about problems, written by cooks.
▪ III. tosh, n.3 slang.|tɒʃ|
[Cf. tosher1.]
Items of value retrieved from drains and sewers.
a1852[see tosher1]. 1974J. Aiken Midnight is Place v. 164, I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.
▪ IV. tosh, n.4 slang.|tɒʃ|
Also tush.
Abbrev. of tosheroon. Also used loosely for two shillings, money.
1912J. 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. 1937Night & Day 22 July 14/3 A couple of grafters had the courage..to bat for a straight tush. 1961J. Maclaren-Ross Doomsday Bk. i. v. 63 Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer. 1964A. Prior Z Cars Again ix. 74 ‘You can give me three blacks for a tush,’ he said. ‘Two blacks for a half a dollar,’ was Mr. Thistlethwaite's reply.
▪ V. tosh, n.5 slang.|tɒʃ|
[Origin uncertain; perh. f. tosh a. (adv.).]
Used as a neutral or joc. form of address.
1954E. Hyams Stories & Cream 175 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham? 1978M. Kenyon Deep Pocket vi. 75 ‘Sortin' you out for a start, tosh!’ came a voice.
▪ VI. tosh, a. (adv.) Sc.
[Origin not ascertained.]
1. Neat, clean, tidy, trim.
1776D. Herd Coll. Songs Gloss., Tosh, tight, neat. 1794Ritson Scot. Songs I. 99, I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh, As a' the neighbours can tell. 1823J. Wilson Trials Marg. Lyndsay xxxiii. 271 The hedges will do—I clipped them wi' my ain hands..and, nae doubt, they make the avenue look a hantle tosher.
2. Agreeable, comfortable; friendly, intimate.
1821Blackw. Mag. X. 4 We were a very tosh and agreeable company. 1887Suppl. to Jamieson, s.v., ‘They're unco tosh wi' ither’.
B. as adv. = toshly (see below).
1780Mayne Siller Gun i. xxiii, Shouther your arms; o! ha'd them tosh on, And not athraw! 1828Moir Mansie Wauch vi, Matters were..settled full tosh between us.
Hence ˈtoshly adv., neatly, tidily, trimly; snugly; ˈtoshy a.2, neat, tidy, pretty.
1788Picken Poems 176 Row't toshly up, an' franket. 1827J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 II. 21 Phrenologists..hae nae slicht o' haun in curlin their hair toshly. 1856J. Ballantine Poems 47 And see how it's keepit sae toshy and clean. 1881Jessie Simpson in Mod. Sc. Poets III. 263 Nae mair wee toshie feet to bath, nor gowden locks to kaim.
▪ VII. tosh, v.1 Sc.|tɒʃ|
[f. tosh a.]
trans. To make ‘tosh’; to tidy, trim.
1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 266 Hoo she wad try to tosh up..her breest. 1886A. Wardrop Mid Cauther Fair 9 Let's tosh yer plaid a wee.
▪ VIII. tosh, v.2 School slang.
[f. tosh n.1]
a. trans. To splash, souse.
b. intr. To bath, ‘tub’.
1883J. P. Groves Fr. Cadet to Capt. 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. 1903Farmer & Henley Slang s.v., He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred. 1905H. A. Vachell The Hill i, I believe he toshes now—once a month or so.
▪ IX. tosh
obs. and dial. form of tush, tusk. |