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bottoms
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?t.?ms/, [?b??.?ms]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?t.?ms/
- Hyphenation: bot?toms
Noun
bottoms
- plural of bottom
Noun
bottoms pl (plural only)
- The bottom (trouser) part of clothing, as in pyjama bottoms, tracksuit bottoms.
Verb
bottoms
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bottom
Anagrams
- sbottom
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tosher
English
Etymology 1
From 19th-century British thieves' cant tosh (“copper; items made of copper”) + -er (“one who uses or acquires”).
Noun
tosher (plural toshers)
- (historical, cant) A thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words used at the present day, preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language, with glossaries of two secret languages, by a London antiquary
- Toshers, men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words used at the present day, preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language, with glossaries of two secret languages, by a London antiquary
- (chiefly historical) A scavenger of valuables lost in the sewers, particularly those of London during the Victorian Age.
- 1851, H. Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, II. 150/2
- 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.
- 1851, H. Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, II. 150/2
Derived terms
- toshing
Etymology 2
See tosh.
Adjective
tosher
- comparative form of tosh: more tosh
Anagrams
- Rothes, Stoehr, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes
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