culch vs tosh

culch

noun
  • Junk or debris. 

  • The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds. 

  • An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use. 

verb
  • To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed. 

adj
  • Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile. 

tosh

noun
  • Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash 

  • Easy bowling 

  • Used as a form of address. 

  • Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers. 

  • A bath or foot pan 

adj
  • Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. 

  • Neat, clean; tidy, trim. 

verb
  • To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath" 

  • To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim. 

  • To search for valuables in sewers 

adv
  • Toshly: neatly, tidily 

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