tosheroon slang.
(tɒʃəˈruːn)
Also tusheroon.
[Etym. unknown.]
Half-a-crown; a coin of this value (in quot. 1859 erron. said to be a crown).
| 1859 Hotten Dict. Slang 112 Tusheroon, a crown piece, five shillings. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out in Paris & London xxix. 214 A tosheroon (half a crown) for the coat, two 'ogs for the trousers. 1960 ‘A. Burgess’ Doctor is Sick xvi. 125 ‘I haven't got three nicker,’ said Edwin, ‘nor one nicker, nor half a bar, nor a tosheroon, nor,’ he added, ‘a solitary single clod. I can't buy anything.’ 1978 Daily Mirror 18 Feb. 19/1 All sorts of things, places and creatures we believed were everlasting have vanished, like trams, tosheroons and Constantinople. |