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• ‘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.
• ‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown.
• Half-a-crown is known as an , , , and a ; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a , or a , or a , or a , or a , or a.
• Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer.
• 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.
• ‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
• Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.
• Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!
• We were a very tosh and agreeable company.
• As a' the neighbours can tell.
• I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh
• Tosh, tight, neat.
• He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.
• 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.
• 1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place vi. 180 You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.
• Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
• 1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book
• 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?
• Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
• We call a tub a tosh.
• A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
• ‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon.
• ‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’
• 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.
• To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.
• I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.