gammon vs tosh

gammon

verb
  • To cure bacon by salting. 

  • To lash with ropes (on a ship). 

  • To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone). 

noun
  • Backgammon (the game itself). 

  • A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). 

  • A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. 

  • A cut of quick-cured pork leg. 

  • A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. 

tosh

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 

adj
  • Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. 

  • Neat, clean; tidy, trim. 

noun
  • Easy bowling 

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

  • Used as a form of address. 

  • Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers. 

  • A bath or foot pan 

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