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Definition: Tosh |
ToshNoun1. Pretentious or silly talk or writing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tosh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Etymology: Tosh \Tosh\, adjective. [Compare to Old French tonce shorn, clipped, and English tonsure.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Peter Tosh (October 9, 1944-September 11, 1987) was a pioneer reggae musician. Arrogant, brash and bitter, Tosh was the Malcolm X to former bandmate Bob Marley's Martin Luther King, Jr.Born Winston Hubert McIntosh, young Peter grew up in the Kingston, Jamaica slum of Trenchtown. Although his short-fuse temper usually kept him in trouble, earning him the nickname Stepping Razor, he began to sing and learn guitar at a young age, inspired by the American stations he could pick up on his radio.
In the early 1960s he met Bob Marley and Bunny Livingston through his guitar teacher, Joe Higgs. In 1962 the trio formed the Wailing Wailers with Junior Braithwaite and back-up singers Beverly Kelso and Cherry Smith. The Wailing Wailers had a huge ska hit with their first single, "Simmer Down," and recorded several more successful singles before Braithwaite, Kelso and Smith left the band in late 1965. Marley spent much of 1966 in America with his mother, but he returned to Jamaica in early 1967 with a renewed interest in music and a new spirituality. McIntosh and Bunny followed his lead, and the three became heavily involved in the Rastafarian movement. Soon afterwards, they formed the Wailers.
Veering away from the up-tempo dance of ska, the band slowed down to a rock-steady pace, and infused their lyrics with political and social messages. The Wailers penned several songs for American singer Johnny Nash before teaming up with production wizard Lee Perry to record some of reggae's earliest hits including "Soul Rebel," "Duppy Conqueror" and "Small Axe." With the addition of bassist Aston "Family Man" Barrett and his brother, drummer Carlton in 1970, the Wailers became Caribbean superstars. The band earned a record contract with Island and released their debut, Catch a Fire, in 1972; following it up with Burnin' the following year.
In 1973, McIntosh accidentally drove his car off a bridge, killing his girlfriend at the time and severely fracturing his own skull. He survived, but became even harder to deal with. After Island Records president Chris Blackwell refused to issue his solo album in 1974, the volatile McIntosh and Bunny Wailer left the Wailers citing the authoritarian control of the band by Bob Marley
McIntosh became bitter with his ex-bandmate, claiming that the only reason Marley was so successful was that his father was white. McIntosh began recording under the name Peter Tosh, and released his solo debut, Legalize It, in 1976 on CBS Records. The title track soon became an anthem for the marijuana movement and was a favorite at Tosh's concerts. As Marley preached his "One Love" message, Tosh railed against the hypocritical "shitstem," and became a favorite target of the Jamaican police. He proudly wore his scars that he had received from the beatings he endured. Always taking the militant approach, he released Equal Rights in 1977. His lyric "I don't want no peace, I want equal rights and justice!" would become a rallying cry for the world's downtrodden masses.
Bush Doctor (1978), Mystic Man (1979), and Wanted: Dread or Alive followed. Released on the Rolling Stones' personal label, Tosh tried to gain some mainstream success while keeping his militant views, but was largely unsuccessful, especially compared to Marley's achievements. After the release of 1983's Mama Africa, Tosh went into self-imposed exile, seeking the spiritual advice of traditional medicine men in Africa, and trying to free himself from recording agreements that distributed his records in South America.
Shortly after the release of his 1987 album, No Nuclear War, Tosh was murdered at his own home during a burglary. He died on September 11, 1987. Only one of the three men was caught. One of Tosh's personal friends was sentenced to hang following the murder trial.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peter Tosh."
Synonyms: ToshSynonyms: baloney (n), bilgewater (n), boloney (n), bosh (n), drool (n), humbug (n), taradiddle (n), tarradiddle (n), tommyrot (n), twaddle (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tosh |
| Non-English Usage: "Tosh" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (chieftain). |
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Screenplays | Take Tosh and four other men and set up a field of fire (The Wild Geese; writing credit: Daniel Carney; Reginald Rose) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Coxswain Tosh Kaiura checking compass while getting on line SURVEYOR launch at Pago Pago. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Tosh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 47.37% of the time. "Tosh" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 47.37% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.09% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.28% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 3.51% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tosh" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tosh | Last name | 1,000 | 10,409 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), dëngla (tommyrot, waffle). (various references) | |
Arabic | هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, trash, trumpery, wind). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дрън-дрън (all my eye, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, jiggery pokery, poppycock, sez-you). (various references) | |
Czech | hovadina (balls, mug's game). (various references) | |
French | blagues, bêtises (tommyrot). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bunk, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, trash, trumpery). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ostobaság (bunk, bushwa, crassness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, flimflam, Folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, haver, inanity, nonsense, piffle, rot, rubbish, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommy rot), ostoba beszéd (bilge, fooling about, rot, trash), marhaság (bunk, crap, imbecility, poppycock, rot), haszontalanság (futility, idleness, inanity), butaság (blundering, bluntness, doltishness, fatuity, folly, piffle, silliness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | omong-kosong (balony, bosh, flim-flam, nonsense). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oshtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tolices (hot, poppycock), disparates (buncombe, poppycock). (various references) | |
Romanian | prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, trash, tripe), fleacuri (babble, bosh, bunk, cheese, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, froth, gammon, humbug, odd trifles, skittles, tripe, whatnot). (various references) | |
Russian | вздор (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blah, boloney, bosh, fiddlesticks, flimflam, fudge, gammon, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, mush, nonsense, poppycock, rot, rubbish, tommy rot, tommyrot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kada za kupanje, gumirano platno za mehove, besmislica (applesauce, balderdash, blah, blether, bosh, bull, bunkum, double dutch, double talk, extravagance, fiddlestick, flubdub, mush, nonsense, pointlessness, ruck). (various references) | |
Swedish | struntprat (all my eye, all my eyes, apple sauce, baloney, eyewash, falderal, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, humbug, jargon, nonsense, poppycock, stuff, trumpery), smörja (anoint, bilge, corn, crap, daub, dirt, dope, drivel, dub, fiddlededee, grease, junk, kitsch, lubricate, muck, oil, rubbish, shoddy, smear, trash, tripe), nonsens (bosh, bunk, bunkum, fandangle, gaff, hogwash, humbug, moonshine, poppycock, taradiddle). (various references) | |
Turkish | uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện ngớ ngẩn dại dột, điều phi lý (incongruity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tosh": toshes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tosh": macintosh, mackintosh. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tosh": macintoshes, mackintoshes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tosh" (pronounced tÄ"sh) |
| 2 | -Ä" sh | awash, bosh, galosh, gosh, Josh, panache, posh, slosh, squash, wash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: host, hots, shot, soth. | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hot, ohs, sot, tho. | |
-2 letters: ho, oh, os, sh, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ethos, ghost, hoist, holts, hoots, horst, hosta, hosts, moths, oaths, phots, shoat, shoot, short, shote, shots, shott, shout, sloth, sooth, soths, south, those, thous, tophs. | |
+2 letters: azoths, bathos, bhoots, booths, borsht, broths, chotts, cloths, cohost, couths, dhotis, ethnos, froths, ghosts, ghosty, helots, hoists, holist, honest, horste, horsts, hostas, hosted, hostel, hostly, hotels, lithos, lotahs, months, mouths, mythos, norths, others, oughts, pathos, photos, potash, reshot, rouths, rowths, scotch, scouth, shoats, shoots, shorts, shorty, shotes, shotts, shouts, sloths, smooth, soothe, sooths, sought, souths, thiols, tholes, tholos, thongs, thorns, thorps, throbs, throes, throws, tonish, tooths, tophes, tophus, torahs, toshes, toughs, toyish, troths, upshot, whorts, worths, youths. | |
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