tosh
/tɑʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I am present engaged in fishing for tosh in the sewers of Blastburn."
- "To think what I've gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it'll be, too."
- "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."
- "‘Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore’s orders. Brought yeh ter this lot...’ ‘Load of old tosh,’ said Uncle Vernon."
- "A ‘tosh’ pan... is also provided."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɑʃ/
- British English: /tɒʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
toshes (plural)
tush (alternative)
toshes (present, singular)
toshing (participle, present)
toshed (participle, past)
toshed (past)
tosher (comparative)
toshest (superlative)
more tosh (comparative)
most tosh (superlative)
Tash (alternative)