Talk:Tosher

Tosheroon (meaning 2)

Re: Tosheroon can also apply to the conglomeration of items caught up in mud and debris, that form a ball shaped entity in the sewers and can sometimes grown quite large. At times, treasures may be found within but sometimes just detritus. A tosher thought himself lucky if he found a tosheroon as it may contain a substantial reward.

Is this a legitimate meaning outside of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series? -- Resuna (talk) 19:20, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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The topic of this article is the scavenger type. Other meanings should be placed in other articles, or on Wiktionary. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. -- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 15:42, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

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"Tosher" was also recorded from a slightly earlier period as [[undergraduate]]s' slang for "an unattached or non-collegiate student at a [[Collegiate university|university having residential colleges]]."<ref>Recorded from 1839. ''The Oxford Universal Dictionary Illustrated'', Little, William; Fowler, H.W; Coulson, J; Rev. and Ed. Onions, C.T. OUP., 1965</ref>

A similar-sounding term from the same period, "tosheroon" has been applied to a tosher in error, but denotes a piece of [[British currency#Pre-decimal|pre-decimal British currency]]: the crown.<ref>1859,  J. C. Hotten ''Dictionary of Slang'', p. 112 : "Tusheroon, a crown piece, five shillings."</ref>

Mention

Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map, a book about the cholera plague in London in the mid-19th century, begins with a description of that city's toshers. Is this worth mentioning? Kdammers (talk) 08:42, 17 June 2020 (UTC)