tosher

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames. historical
    — Toshers, men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames.
  2. A scavenger of valuables lost in the sewers, particularly those of London during the Victorian Age. historical
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of tosh: more tosh comparative,form-of

词形变化

toshers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
toshing

词源

词源 1
From 19th-century British thieves' cant tosh (“copper; items made of copper”) + -er (“one who uses or acquires”).
词源 2
See tosh.
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