tosh

See also TOSH

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɒʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

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)

Anagrams

• host
• hots
• shot
• Thos.

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Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *diāĺ

Noun

tosh

1. stone (small piece of stone)