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tosheroon - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From 19th-century British slang, developed from or alongside tusheroon, of uncertain derivation from British slang caroon (“crown, a 5-shilling silver coin”)
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Tosheroon - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki
A tosheroon is the name for a lump of debris and rubbish made of the mud and gunk found clogged in drains. While they appear worthless, tosheroons can contain ...
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tosheroon, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun tosheroon is in the 1850s. OED's earliest evidence for tosheroon is from 1859, in a dictionary by John Hotten, publisher ...
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tosheroon
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 ...
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tosheroon, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
tosheroon n. ... 1. (also tosher) a counterfeit half-crown. ... 2. (orig. Ling. Fr./Polari) half-a-crown, 2s 6d (12½p).
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Tosheroon - Oxford Reference
noun dated A half-crown. Also tusheroon. 1859–. G.Orwell A tosheroon (half a crown) for the coat, two 'ogs.
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tosh
▪ I. tosh, n.1 School slang. (tɒʃ) A bath; a footpan. Also tosh-can, tosh-pan.1881 Leathes in Pascoe Life Publ. Sch. ii. 20 A ‘tosh’ pan..is also provided. 1883 Tosh-can [see tosh v.2]. 1905 H. A. Vachell The Hill i, We call a tub a tosh. Ibid. iii, His feet were thrust into a ‘tosh’ filled with ste...
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Cards - Tosheroon - Conjuring Credits
Tosheroon was invented by Bob Driebeek and marketed by Harry Stanley, who later published it in The Gen, Vol. 23 No. 11, Mar. 1968, p. 250.
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"TOSHEROON": A small coin or monetary unit - OneLook
noun: (British, archaic slang) A half-crown coin; its value noun: (British, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value
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tosheroon - Dictionary - Thesaurus
'Tush', for money, would be an abbreviation of 'tusheroon', which in old cant, and also in tinker dialect, signified a crown.
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tosheroon - definition and meaning - Wordnik
A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two 'ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a 'og for the cap and scarf.
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