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tosh

The correct spelling is tosh.

How to pronounce tosh

/tɒʃ/
noun

IPA: /tɒʃ/

Say it like: Tos-h

The correct spelling is tosh. Copper; items made of copper For example: "1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book"

Usage Examples

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

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.Copper; items made of copper
  2. 2.Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
  3. 3.Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
  4. 4.A bath or foot pan
  5. 5.Easy bowling

verb

  1. 1.To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
  2. 2.To search for valuables in sewers
  3. 3.To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
  4. 4.To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

adjective

  1. 1.Tight.
  2. 2.Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
  3. 3.Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

adverb

  1. 1.Toshly: neatly, tidily

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