tosh

See also TOSH

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɒʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Possibly derived from tosheroon (“5 crowns”), therefore something of minimal worth.

Noun

tosh (uncountable)

1. (chiefly UK) Silly nonsense; twaddle, balderdash.
   • 1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ch. 5,

     Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.

Synonyms

• See Wikisaurus:nonsense

Translations

silly nonsense

• Dutch: onzin (nl) m, zever (nl) m, gebrabbel (nl) n

• Finnish: höpö-höpö (fi)

Etymology 2

Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.

Adjective

tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)

1. (Scotland) neat; trim

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• host
• hots
• shot
• Thos.

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Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *diāĺ

Noun

tosh (plural toshlar)

1. stone (small piece of stone)