half-a-crown vs tosh

half-a-crown

noun
  • twenty-six 

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 

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 

adj
  • Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate. 

  • Neat, clean; tidy, trim. 

adv
  • Toshly: neatly, tidily 

How often have the words half-a-crown and tosh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )