tosh
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英 /tɒʃ/
美 /tɑʃ/|/tɔʃ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
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A half-crown coin; its value
— tush or tosh. Money: Cockney: late C.19–20. Ex: tusheroon... But H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.
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Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
— I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.
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A crown coin; its value
— Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
- Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
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Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
— To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.
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A bath or foot pan
— A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
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Easy bowling
— Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
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Used as a form of address.
— 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?
动词 v.
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To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
— Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
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To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
— Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.
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To search for valuables in sewers
— You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.
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To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
— ‘Toshing’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding about three gallons of water) over the wretched lad's head.
形容词 adj.
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Tight.
— Tosh, tight, neat.
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Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
— I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh As a' the neighbours can tell.
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Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
— We were a very tosh and agreeable company.
副词 adv.
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Toshly: neatly, tidily
— Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!
词形变化
词源
词源 1
From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss.
Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.
Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.
词源 2
Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.
词源 3
From 19th-century British slang tosheroon, from or alongside tusheroon, of uncertain derivation from British slang caroon (“crown, a 5-shilling silver coin”), from Sabir and (originally) Italian corona (“crown”). The term was either derived from or influenced by madza caroon, the British slang for the Sabir and Italian mezzo corona (“half-crown”), possibly under influence from tosh (“copper items; valuables”) above or from the half-crown's value of two shillings & sixpence.
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