English Dictionary

tosh

IPA（発音記号）

/tɒʃ/

名詞

イギリス英語 可算名詞 廃用 俗語 古語 不可算名詞

(Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value / (Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value

日本語の意味

旧イギリスの俗語で、ハーフクラウン硬貨（その価値を表す） / 旧イギリスの俗語で、クラウン硬貨（その価値を表す）

She paid the bus fare with a tarnished tosh, surprising the conductor.

彼女はくすんだハーフクラウン硬貨でバス代を払って、車掌を驚かせた。

意味（1）

(Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A half-crown coin; its value

tush or tosh. Money: Cockney: late C.19–20. Ex: tusheroon... But H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.

意味（2）

(Britain, obsolete slang, countable) A crown coin; its value

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

意味（3）

(Britain, archaic slang, uncountable) Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

toshes （ plural ）