1881 Leathes in C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools ii. 20 A ‘tosh’ pan..is also provided.

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.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill i We call a tub a tosh.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill iii His feet were thrust into a ‘tosh’ filled with steaming water.

1892 Oxf. Univ. Mag. 26 Oct. 26/1 To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.

1898 Tit-bits 25 June 252/3 Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.

1906 E. V. Lucas Listener's Lure (1909) 36 This London business seems to me the most awful tosh.

1902 H. Belloc Path to Rome 163 The poor public..is driven back to toshy novels about problems, written by cooks.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 150/2 The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of ‘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.

1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place v. 164 I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.

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.

1937 Night & Day 22 July 14/3 A couple of grafters had the courage..to bat for a straight tush.

1961 J. Maclaren-Ross Doomsday Bk. i. v. 63 Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer.

1964 A. 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.

1954 E. Hyams Stories & Cream 175 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?

1978 M. Kenyon Deep Pocket vi. 75 ‘Sortin' you out for a start, tosh!’ came a voice.

1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 271 Tosh, tight, neat.

1794 J. Ritson Sc. Songs I. 99 I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh, As a' the neighbours can tell.

1823 J. Wilson Trials Margaret 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.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 4 We were a very tosh and agreeable company.

1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) They're unco tosh wi' ither.

1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) i. 20 Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch vi. 52 Matters were..settled full tosh between us.

1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 176 Row't toshly up, an' franket.

1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 118 Phrenologists..hae nae slicht o' haun in curlin' their hair toshly.

1856 J. Ballantine Poems 47 And see how it's keepit sae toshy and clean.

1881 J. Simpson in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 3rd Ser. 263 Nae mair wee toshie feet to bath, nor gowden locks to kaim.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 788 Hoo she wad try to tosh up..her breest.

1886 A. Wardrop Mid Cauther Fair 9 Let's tosh yer plaid a wee.

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 & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 171/1 He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill i I believe he toshes now—once a month or so.