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tosh

/tɒʃ/

noun

Meaning

  • Copper; items made of copper

  • Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains

  • Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash

  • A bath or foot pan

  • Easy bowling

  • Used as a form of address.

verb

Meaning

  • To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

    "1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book"

  • To search for valuables in sewers

  • To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"