Pretentious or silly talk or writing

Usage examples of tosh.

And then, just before the first chukka of the game, Hanuman li Tosh appeared at the far end of the huge arena.

He gazed at the black-handled knife waiting on a black rock, and he remembered that he hated Hanuman li Tosh for inflicting a wound in him that could never be healed.

No wonder Sutton, whose father had been a tosher and knew all the waterways large and small, was now frightened by the vast steam engines that shook the ground, and by the knowledge that men were digging, shoveling, and moving earth, disturbing what was settled.

They were dressed in the usual tosher gear: high rubber boots, hat, and harness.

One day, in a week, or a month, some tosher would find their bones, picked clean by rats.

Then Crow went up again with bodies, and Monk found himself beside a barrel-chested navvy and a tosher with a broken front tooth that made his breath whistle as he heaved and dug.

They were a devoted family and Leslie and Basil were said to be particularly concerned when their brother Peter was seen by several witnesses kneeling in the street outside a pub called the Old Justice beside the blood-stained body of an East End character known as Tosher MacBride.

I came out of the Old Justice pub that night I see Tosher on the pavement and Petey Delgardo was kneeling beside him.

Mr Delgardo let go of Tosher, of that good man Mr MacBride, ran to his car and got into it ?

So that rainy night, outside the Old Justice pub in Stepney, Mr X waited for Tosher, waited with this knife and, when he saw his unfaithful servant come out of the shadows, he stabbed.

The sad Li Tosh, the anguished Sonderval grieving for Delora wi Towt, Soli with his death-ruined eyes and silent face-almost all the pilots agreed we must call a truce.

But Tosh had only met the ollave through Abernaci, and told Stewart nothing else that was new.

Archembault Abernaci stopped fussing with his cages in the outer reaches of the chateau gardens and retired to the town lodging he shared with his assistants, several bears and the saltimbanque Tosh.

For the chasm was bridged already by the stout cable put there a week before by the saltimbanque Tosh, down which he slid, torches flaming, to the cheers of the crowd.

I began by suggesting names like Porker, Tosh, Bugge, Spiffkins—the obvious sort.