rot vs tosh

rot

noun
  • Verbal nonsense. 

  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. 

  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. 

  • Decaying matter. 

verb
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret. 

  • To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place). 

  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. 

  • To decline in function or utility. 

  • To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt. 

  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes. 

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. 

adv
  • Toshly: neatly, tidily 

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 

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