different between kosher vs tosher

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ????? (kosher), from Hebrew ???????? (kashér).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko????/
• (rare, Yiddish-influenced) IPA^(key): /?k???(?)/, /?k???(?)/
• Rhymes: -????(?)

Adjective

kosher (comparative more kosher, superlative most kosher)

1. (Judaism) Fit for use or consumption, in accordance with Jewish law (especially relating to food).

2. (figuratively, by extension) In accordance with standards or usual practice.

Antonyms

• treyf

Derived terms

Related terms

• kasher
• kashrut

Translations

Adverb

kosher (not comparable)

1. In a kosher manner; in accordance with kashrut.

Verb

kosher (third-person singular simple present koshers, present participle koshering, simple past and past participle koshered)

1. (transitive) To kasher; to prepare (for example, meat) in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law.

Translations

See also

• halal

Portuguese

Adjective

kosher (plural kosher, comparable)

1. (of food) kosher (prepared in accordance with Jewish religious practices)

Spanish

Adjective

kosher (plural kosheres)

1. kosher

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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

Derived terms

• toshing

Etymology 2

See tosh.

Adjective

tosher

1. comparative form of tosh: more tosh

Anagrams

• Rothes, Stoehr, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes