different between tosh vs tost

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)

1. (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.

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.

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (Britain, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
   • 1954, E. Hyams, Stories & Cream, 175

     'Ere, tosh, you bin at Cha'ham?

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)

1. (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.
2. (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.

3. (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.

Etymology 2

Compare Old French tonce (“shorn, clipped”) and English tonsure.

Adjective

tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
   • 1776, D. Herd, Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs

     Tosh, tight, neat.

2. (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.

3. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
   • 1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 10 4

     We were a very tosh and agreeable company.

Derived terms

• toshy, toshly

Adverb

tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)

1. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily
   • 1808, J. Mayne, Siller Gun, i. 20

     Shouther your arms!—O! had them tosh on, And not athraw!

Verb

tosh (third-person singular simple present toshes, present participle toshing, simple past and past participle toshed)

1. (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.

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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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)

1. stone (small piece of stone)

English

Verb

tost

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of toss

Anagrams

• TSTO, stot, tots

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tostum, the neuter of tostus. Cognate with French tôt, Italian tosto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. (archaic or dialectal) soon

   Synonym: aviat

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tost

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. second-person singular/plural present
   2. third-person singular present
   3. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s?t??/

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, nominative plural tostanna)

1. silence

   Proverb:

2. verbal noun of tost

Declension

Verb

tost (present analytic tostann, future analytic tostfaidh, verbal noun tost, past participle tosta)

1. (intransitive) be silent, become silent

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tost" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tost” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “tostaim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “tost” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “tost” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French toster.

Verb

tost

1. Alternative form of tosten

Etymology 2

A back-formation from tosten.

Alternative forms

• toste, toost

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

tost (plural tostes)

1. toast (bread that has been toasted)

Descendants

• English: toast
• Scots: toast

References

• “t?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Old French

Etymology

Possibly from Latin tot (“very”) + cito (“fast”), but more likely from Vulgar Latin *tostum, from the neuter of Latin tostus (“toasted”), later meaning "hotly, promptly" in Vulgar Latin. Cognate to Italian tosto, Occitan and Catalan tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?st/

Adverb

tost

1. early
2. soon
3. quickly; straight away

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: tôt
• ? Old Portuguese: toste
  • Galician: toste
  • Portuguese: toste

References

• Bratchet, A. (1873) , “tot”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
• “chignon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tustus, from the same root as tóe. Several phonological peculiarities relating to the evolution of this term, such as irregular final -st (which should have become -s(s) /s/) and the initial consonant fluctuating between t- and s-, are probably due to contamination from its synonym, socht. This contamination intensified over time, giving birth to Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish forms like tocht and sosd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tost/

Noun

tost m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. silence

   Synonym: socht

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tost, tocht
  • Irish: tost
  • Scottish Gaelic: tost

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From English toast, from Middle English tost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

tost m inan

1. toast (toasted bread)

Declension

Further reading

• tost in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• tosd

Etymology

From Old Irish tost, from Proto-Celtic *tustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???s?t?]

Noun

tost m (genitive singular tost, no plural)

1. silence

Mutation

References

• “tost” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “tost”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Turkish

Etymology

From English toast.

Noun

tost (definite accusative tosdu, plural tostlar)

1. toast

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian toast

Noun

tost m (invariable)

1. toasted sandwich

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tostus.

Adjective

tost (feminine singular tost, plural tostion, equative tosted, comparative tostach, superlative tostaf)

1. ill
2. sore

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toast.

Noun

tost m (uncountable)

1. toast

   Synonym: bara cras

Mutation