humbug vs tosh

humbug

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

verb
  • To fight; to act tough. 

  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

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 

adv
  • Toshly: neatly, tidily 

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 

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