English Dictionary

tosh

IPA（発音記号）

/tɒʃ/

動詞

イギリス英語 廃用 俗語 稀用 イギリス英語

(Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls / (chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers

日本語の意味

（英国で時代遅れのスラング）銅、特に船体の銅部を盗む行為 / （主に英国で、あまり一般的ではないスラング）下水道内で貴重品を探し出す行為

Late at night, the dockworkers whispered that a gang would tosh the old schooner's hull for copper.

夜遅く、港の労働者たちは一団が古いスクーナーの船体から銅をはぎ取るだろうとひそひそ話していた。

意味（1）

(Britain, obsolete slang) To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls

1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-book

意味（2）

(chiefly Britain, uncommon slang) To search for valuables in sewers

You tend to the toshing, let Mester Hobday tend to the dealing.

意味（3）

(UK, archaic school slang) To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"

‘Toshing’ was the name given to a punishment inflicted by the cadets on any one of their number who made himself obnoxious. The victim, dressed in full uniform, was forced to run the gauntlet of his brother cadets, who, as he passed, emptied the contents of their ‘tosh-cans’ (small baths holding about three gallons of water) over the wretched lad's head.

toshes （ present singular third-person ）

toshing （ participle present ）

toshed （ participle past ）

toshed （ past ）