# tosh

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɒʃ/ · frequency rank #35,118

## Definitions
1. Copper; items made of copper.
2. Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
3. Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
4. A bath or foot pan
5. Easy bowling
6. Used as a form of address.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **TS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-ts)
- **toy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-toy)
- **tow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tow)
- **TSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tsa)
- **tot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tot)
- **tsk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tsk)
- **tse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tse)
- **TPS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tps)
- **TSM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tsm)
- **TOV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tov)
- **tss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tss)
- **Tsu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tsu)
- **town** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-town)
- **tour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tour)
- **toys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-toys)
- **toss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-toss)
- **tote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tote)
- **tout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tout)
- **tusk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-tusk)
- **twos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tosh-vs-twos)

## Common misspellings (6)
`otsh`, `tohs`, `toshh`, `tossh`, `tsoh`, `ttosh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tosh