subs. (public schools’).—1. A bath, a foot-pan. Also as verb = to splash, to douse, to throw water over a person: e.g., ‘He TOSHED his house beak by mistake, and got three hundred’; TOSH-POND (Royal Military Academy) = the bathing-pond.
1881. PASCOE, ed. Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, 20. A ‘TOSH’ PAN, an important utensil for periodical ablutions on stated nights, is also provided.
2. See TUSH.
3. (university).—Nonsense; ROT (q.v.): ‘What frightful TOSH’ (Oxford Magazine, 26 Oct. 1892).
