English Dictionary

tosh

/tɒʃ/

noun

(uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Copper; items made of copper. / (uncountable, chiefly Britain, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.

I have a lot of tosh in my garage.

意味（1）

(uncountable, Britain, slang, obsolete) Copper; items made of copper.

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.]

意味（2）

(uncountable, chiefly Britain, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.

I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.

意味（3）

(chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash

To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.

意味（4）

(UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan

A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.

意味（5）

(cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling

Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.

意味（6）

(UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.

'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?