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Yes. The word tosh is a Scrabble US word. The word tosh is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word tosh is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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4-letter words (5 found)

HOST,HOTS,SHOT,SOTH,TOSH,

3-letter words (7 found)

HOS,HOT,OHS,SHO,SOH,SOT,THO,

2-letter words (7 found)

HO,OH,OS,SH,SO,ST,TO,

You can make 19 words from tosh according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tosh

tosh otsh tsoh stoh osth soth tohs oths thos htos ohts hots tsho stho thso htso shto hsto osht soht ohst host shot hsot

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Definitions and meaning of tosh

tosh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɒʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

  • (nonsense) tush

Noun

tosh (countable and uncountable, plural toshes)

  1. (uncountable, British, slang, obsolete) Copper; items made of copper.
  2. (uncountable, chiefly British, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
  3. (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
  4. (UK, 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.
  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. (UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:nonsense
Derived terms
  • pish tosh, pish and tosh
  • toshy, toshing
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (British, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
    • Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.
  2. (chiefly British, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers
  3. (UK, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

tosh (comparative tosher, superlative toshest)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) Tight.
  2. (Scotland) Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
  3. (Scotland) Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
Derived terms
  • toshy, toshly

Adverb

tosh (comparative more tosh, superlative most tosh)

  1. (Scotland) Toshly: neatly, tidily

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. (British, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value
  2. (British, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value
  3. (British, 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.
  • “tosh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • 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, Soth, Thos., host, hots, oths, shot

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tiāĺ.

Noun

tosh (plural toshlar)

  1. stone (small piece of stone)

Source: wiktionary.org