noun
tosh
TAHSH/tɑːʃ/
Nonsense or foolish talk.
The critic dismissed the claim as tosh.
Etymology
Tosh may be a variant of bosh, meaning nonsense, which comes from Turkish meaning 'empty.' If that proposed connection is correct, foolish talk is figuratively empty talk.
In context
the German soldiers are, you know, superbly efficient down at the ground level, but higher up they're all these murderous bastards. Well, actually, that's utter tosh.
More examples
- She would not listen to such tosh.
- He called the rumor complete tosh.
- The letter was full of pompous tosh.
Forms
tosh
Similar words
- nonsense
- Nonsense is the ordinary word; tosh is an informal term especially associated with British speech.
- bunk
- Bunk is a comparable informal American term for foolish or false talk.