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单词 dosh
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Definition of dosh in English:

dosh

noun dɒʃ
mass nounBritish informal
  • Money.

    cycling saves you a heap of dosh
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I reckon that he won't shift himself until there is absolutely no money left in the tea caddy where they keep the pension dosh.
    • Any extra dosh makes us more miserable than ever.
    • More titles, and a Swiss bank account full of dosh, await.
    • If you make a lewd amount of dosh, you deserve it.
    • They've got the adventurous outlook of the traditional budget traveller, with one important difference: dosh.
    • That means one in three cashpoints now extract up to £1.75 from customers for the privilege of gaining access to their own dosh.
    • In truth, the premises are too large and cavernous, the sort of place that would need a lot of dosh spent if it was to have some feeling of intimacy.
    • What he could not promise was any extra dosh in the here and now.
    • But in this case despite bucket loads of dosh being spent on it the film fails to reach the quality and standards of some his past ventures.
    • I felt mortified at some neighbours feeling obliged to cough up dosh.
    • So the secret of becoming a big-time writer and making lots of dosh as an independent is to write something that has the same effect.
    • She, without asking, snatched my card wallet (which also contains dosh and other cards).
    • But it can't be the government's fault, it says, because it has provided oodles of extra dosh.
    • But should I be spending dosh replacing stuff if I was about to try and buy a house?
    • And if you give dosh to rich oldsters, it must be at the expense of someone else.
    • Both will get a lot more dosh - our dosh - but their fundamental, fatal flaws will remain.
    • If your tenant wants to leave, make sure you have already taken that crucial six weeks' dosh as deposit.
    • If there is dosh sloshing around the Treasury, wouldn't it be better spent on tax cuts for all the young folk struggling in poorly paid jobs, unable to buy a home?
    • She needs some dosh cos she wants a new career as a screenwriter.
    • And you should count yourself among a lucky minority if they grace you with eye contact when they stick out their paw for your dosh.
    Synonyms
    cash, hard cash, ready money

Origin

1950s: of unknown origin.

Rhymes

awash, Bosch, bosh, brioche, cloche, cohosh, cosh, Foch, galosh, gosh, josh, mosh, nosh, posh, quash, slosh, splosh, squash, swash, tosh, wash
 
 
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