tosh

FREQ #22682

n. 胡说, 梦话

发音

UK /tɒʃ/
US /tɑʃ/
AU /tɔʃ/
NZ /tɒʃ/
NZ /tɔ̟ʃ/

词形变化

toshes 复数 toshes 三单 toshing 现在分词 toshed 过去式 toshed 过去分词 tosher 比较级 tosher toshest toshest 最高级 more tosh 比较级 most tosh 最高级

别名

tush toshy toshly

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Copper; items made of copper.

    废旧 俚语 不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.

    罕用 俚语 不可数 可数
  3. 3.

    Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash

    俚语 不可数 可数
  4. 4.

    A bath or foot pan

    英国 可数 不可数

    A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided.

  5. 5.

    Easy bowling

    贬义 俚语 不可数 体育 游戏 可数

    Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh’, which means bowling of contemptible easiness.

  6. 6.

    Used as a form of address.

    英国 幽默 俚语 不可数 可数
  7. 1.

    A half-crown coin; its value

    可数 废旧 俚语 不可数
  8. 2.

    A crown coin; its value

    可数 废旧 俚语 不可数
  9. 3.

    Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

    古体 俚语 不可数 可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

    废旧 俚语

    Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.

  2. 2.

    To search for valuables in sewers

    俚语
  3. 3.

    To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

    英国
  4. 1.

    To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.

    苏格兰

    Hoo she wad try to tosh up... her breest.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Tight.

    苏格兰 废旧
  2. 2.

    Neat, clean; tidy, trim.

    苏格兰
  3. 3.

    Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.

    苏格兰
adv.
  1. 1.

    Toshly: neatly, tidily

    苏格兰

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

drool baloney humbug bosh bilgewater boloney taradiddle tarradiddle tommyrot twaddle

上位词 5

nonsense bunk meaninglessness hokum nonsensicality

相关短语

tosh up pish tosh pish and tosh Kiryas Tosh pish posh

词源

From 19th-century British thieves' cant, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from *tarsh, a metathetic alteration of trash; or from toss. Sense of nonsense possibly influenced by tush (“nonsense! tsk tsk!”) attested from 15th century.

来源：wiktionary