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frosh
English
Pronunciation
- (US)
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /f???/
Etymology 1
From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English fros? (“frog”), from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). See also frosk, frog.
Noun
frosh (plural froshes)
- (now dialectal) A frog.
- 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
- The mud hath in it certaine seed whereof greene froshes rise.
- 1565 (1593), Golding, Ovid's Met. xv. (1593) pg. 356:
Translations
Etymology 2
Blend of freshman +? sophomore.
Noun
frosh (plural froshes or frosh)
- (colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
- That frosh is really getting on my nerves!
Synonyms
- underclassman
- newbie
- fresher (UK)
Derived terms
- prefrosh
Translations
Verb
frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)
- (transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
- This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
- (transitive, slang) To damage through incompetence.
- Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
Synonyms
- (initiate): haze
Derived terms
- froshing
Translations
Middle English
Noun
frosh
- Alternative form of frossh
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tosh
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.
Alternative forms
- (nonsense) tush
Noun
tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)
- (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper
- 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
- (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
- 1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place, v. 164
- I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn.
- 1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place, v. 164
- (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- 1892 October 26, Oxford University Magazine, 26/1
- To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too.
- 1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ch. 5,
- 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.
- 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv
- ‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’
- ‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon.
- 1892 October 26, Oxford University Magazine, 26/1
- (Britain, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
- 1881, Leathes in C.E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, ii. 20
- A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.
- 1905, H. A. Vachell, Hill, i
- We call a tub a tosh.
- 1881, Leathes in C.E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, ii. 20
- (cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling
- 1898 June 25, Tit-Bits, 252/3
- Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
- 1898 June 25, Tit-Bits, 252/3
- (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
- 1954, E. Hyams, Stories & Cream, 175
- 'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?
- 1954, E. Hyams, Stories & Cream, 175
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:nonsense
Derived terms
- toshy, toshing
Translations
Verb
tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)
- (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
- 1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book
- Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
- (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
- 1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place, vi. 180
- You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.
- 1974, J. Aiken, Midnight is Place, vi. 180
- (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
- 1883, J.P. Groves, From Cadet to Captain, iii. 227
- ‘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.
- 1903, J. S. Farmer & al., Slang, VII. 171/1
- He toshed his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred.
- 1883, J.P. Groves, From Cadet to Captain, iii. 227
Etymology 2
Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.
Adjective
tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)
- (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
- 1776, D. Herd, Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs
- Tosh, tight, neat.
- 1776, D. Herd, Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs
- (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
- 1794, J. Ritson, Scottish Songs, I. 99
- I gang ay fou clean and fou tosh
- As a' the neighbours can tell.
- 1794, J. Ritson, Scottish Songs, I. 99
- (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
- 1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 10 4
- We were a very tosh and agreeable company.
- 1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 10 4
Derived terms
- toshy, toshly
Adverb
tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)
- (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily
- 1808, J. Mayne, Siller Gun, i. 20
- Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!
- 1808, J. Mayne, Siller Gun, i. 20
Verb
tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)
- (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
- 1826 November, J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, xxix, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 788
- Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.
- 1826 November, J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, xxix, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 788
Etymology 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.
Alternative forms
- tush
Noun
tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)
- (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- ‘’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.’
- 1961, J. Maclaren-Ross, Doomsday Book, i. v. 63
- Here's a tosh to buy yourself some beer.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- 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.
- 1912, J.W. Horsley, I Remember, xii. 253
- ‘Tush’, for money, would be an abbreviation of ‘tusheroon’, which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
References
- Oxford English Dictionary. "tosh, n.1-5, adj. & adv., and v.1-2". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1913 & 1986.
- Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, rev. ed. "Tosh". 1913.
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words. James Camden Hotten (London), 1859.
- The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge (London), 1961.
Anagrams
- HOTs, Thos., host, hots, oths, shot
Uzbek
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ti??.
Noun
tosh (plural toshlar)
- stone (small piece of stone)
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