slang. Bosh, trash; nonsense, rubbish, twaddle; in Cricket, see quot. 1898.
1892. Oxf. Univ. Mag., 26 Oct., 26/1. To think what I’ve gone through to hear that man! Frightful tosh it’ll be, too.
1898. Tit-Bits, 25 June, 252/3. Among the recent neologisms of the cricket field is ‘tosh,’ which means bowling of contemptible easiness.
1906. E. V. Lucas, Listener’s Lure (1909), 36. This London business seems to me the most awful tosh.
Hence Toshy a. slang, trashy, rubbishy.
1902. Belloc, Path to Rome, 163. The poor public buys the Marvel and gasps at the cleverness of the writing and despairs, and has to read what it can understand, and is driven back to toshy novels about problems, written by cooks.
