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What does tosh mean?

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Noun
  1. (Britain, obsolete slang, uncountable) Copper; items made of copper
  2. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang, uncountable) Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
  3. (chiefly Britain, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now) especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
  4. (Britain, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
  5. (pejorative) Easy bowling
  6. (humorous) Used as a form of address.
Verb
  1. (Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
  2. (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
  3. (Britain, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
Adjective
  1. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
  2. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
  3. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Adverb
  1. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily
Verb
  1. (Scotland) To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
Noun
  1. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value
  2. (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value
  3. (Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage
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