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Thread #103310   Message #3343137
Posted By: MGM·Lion
25-Apr-12 - 12:32 PM
Thread Name: ADD/Origins: Orderly Day
Subject: RE: ADD/Origins: Orderly Day
"And it's: orderly, squish! orderly, tosh! orderly, tea this way!"...

"Stains of tosh are easy to wash compared with stains of fat" ~~

"Squish" = marmalade, widely so defined in Chambers, Partridge &c.

But what, as a foodstuff, is/was "tosh"? Can't find that in any slang dictionary, in print or online. Mostly the meaning given is "nonsense"; also the equivalent of "mate" in the vocative, esp among spivs and street salesmen. But 'tosh' = any sort of aliment I can find nowhere.

Anyone know?

~M~