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Meanings of tosh in English
Portuguese
mexerico Catalan
poca-soltada Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Synonyms
Examples for "humbug"
Examples for "humbug"
1
Of course some in Detroit have an answer to Lovins's visions: humbug.
2
Never let it be said I was bah humbug about Christmas traditions.
3
Nothing can hurt so much in the end as lies and humbug.
4
All this unification of nationalities is the great humbug of the century.
5
Let us say in passing, that the American does not like humbug.
1
For nearly 20 years, Shemar Moore has been making the ladies drool.
2
A long, glistening thread of drool detached itself and fell onto me.
3
Water began to drool through the holes and over the opened-up skin.
4
They are serious seizures, but he doesn't shake and drool or convulse.
5
But I made it safely, without collapsing into a puddle of drool.
1
I wish you'd drop that sort of sentimental bosh, Skipper; especially now.
2
Oh, he wanted to come, but I put the kye-bosh on that.
3
What you call bosh is the only thing men dare die for.
4
He must surely be aware that much he said was superstitious bosh.
5
If my reader finds this bosh and abracadabra, all right for him.
1
Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
2
Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle?
3
They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
4
We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
5
The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
1
Yet some critics in the health care profession say that's all baloney.
2
Other scientists said baloney-thatpowerful new cooling methods would eventually condense them.
3
He said: We want no more stunts or PR baloney from Boris.
4
Award-winning science fiction author Brian Aldiss has another term for it: baloney.
5
That was a lot of baloney you had in the paper .
1
All I tried to do was to make her forget the tommyrot.
2
I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing tommyrot.
3
And we all said it was tommyrot, and she was to tell us.
4
Seems to me it's as good as the tommyrot you write.
5
Can you imagine our minds embracing each other, thrilling at the contact,-oh ,it'stommyrot.
1
He turned his head and looked at the hatchet in the boat's bilgewater.
2
The hatchet still lay in the bloody bilgewater.
3
At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling bilgewater.
4
Tess suddenly found herself pinned to the ceiling of her boat with bilgewater surging around her head.
5
The tracks led off the beaten track, down the path not taken, through a sleepy hollow, over a tarn of brackish bilgewater.
1
I hesitated; then resolved on a taradiddle,-inMarjorie's interest.
2
You'll have to-Another little taradiddle in his chest.
3
His heart did a jagged taradiddle and he held his breath... but then it settled again.
4
Considering that it was about six-thirty, I wanted to ask who was telling a taradiddle now; but I resisted the temptation, and replied-
5
Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles.
1
Nobody will care about you if you are a phony boloney.
2
I speared the tiny ball of boloney a Specimen to examine.
3
What a load of boloney.
4
Such is not appearing to happen so I will go eat a boloney & cheese sandwich with a glass of ice tea with it.
5
"You've got a piece of boloney stuck in your teeth Ray." While I poked around my Canines he spoke to me very sincere.
1
Well;- Itoldhim a tarradiddle of course.
2
It will be for you, gentlemen, to decide where there is any grain of truth in all this tarradiddle.
3
I've no right to come here after all the tarradiddles I told you.
4
'There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?'
5
"So it seems you can't tell a tarradiddle for me?"
Usage of tosh in English
1
Don't believe that tosh about Lansdowne Road being dead in the water.
2
Say how grieved you are and all the rest of the tosh.
3
Finish by asking him does he get paid for this tosh.
4
I mean, roping you in to listen to this frightful tosh!
5
What if this was sentimental tosh, the cruelest lie of all?
6
I have come here to talk about new tactics, and I get this tosh.
7
Yet for some odd reason I still wanted to road-test this tosh for myself.
8
Is it repertory theatre tosh, or really straight paying stuff?
9
William, you really are talking the most appalling tosh.
10
A much more rewarding task than watching this tosh.
11
To hell with Christmas charity and all that tosh.
12
Now, why do people in Fleet-street talk such tosh?
13
We now know the thing to be total tosh.
14
Unreadable tosh is another way of putting it.
15
There's a thin line between tripe and tosh.
16
I'm to learn to be a landowner and squire and all that sort of tosh instead.
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