different between tosheroon vs tusheroon
tosheroon
English
Alternative forms
- tusheroon, tossaroon
Etymology
From 19th-century British slang, developed 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.
Noun
tosheroon (plural tosheroons)
- (Britain, archaic slang) 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 ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- (Britain, obsolete slang) 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
Derived terms
- tosh
- tossaroon
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tusheroon
English
Noun
tusheroon (plural tusheroons)
- Alternative form of tosheroon
- 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.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
Derived terms
- tush
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