What's the difference between bosh and tosh?

Bosh


Definition:

  • (n.) Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.
  • (n.) Figure; outline; show.
  • (n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
  • (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
  • (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He made a great pass and CB hit a big shot.” Bosh praised his team-mate’s unselfishness.
  • (2) With this in mind, his new deal feels like Miami paying for past results, rewarding Bosh for his often overlooked contributions during the Heat's four-season reign on top of the East.
  • (3) Chris Bosh finished with 18 points as the Heat equaled the mark set by the 2007-08 Houston Rockets.
  • (4) Chris Bosh is on the line here, the whole Big Three are getting in on the freebies, and he makes both.
  • (5) Chris Bosh told those folks not to bother coming for Game 7.
  • (6) 1.23am BST Heat 13-5 Spurs, 6:54 remaining, 1st quarter Chris Bosh makes a layup and then, close to halfway through the first quarter the Spurs finally get their first field goal of the game, a Kawhi Leonard three-pointer.
  • (7) Because of the size and timing of Bosh's new contract, it felt like something of a panic move, one the Heat could regret around years four and five when Bosh will be far from his peak.
  • (8) Bosh and Wade - the other members of the Big Three who sat alongside James as he promised titles at his Miami welcoming party two summers ago - both had strong games.
  • (9) With Bosh back in the fold, it was all but inevitable that Miami would re-sign Wade, who also opted out of his contract earlier in the offseason .
  • (10) Needless to say, it would be a huge blow to the Heat if James took his talents anywhere else, particularly if there is any truth in the rumors that Bosh will head elsewhere, possibly to the Houston Rockets , if Miami fails to re-sign James.
  • (11) A big reason that the Heat have been surviving without Chris Bosh has been that they’ve gotten meaningful contributions from the likes of Luol Deng, Joe Johnson and Amar’e Stoudemire.
  • (12) The Boshe raid was part of Operation Thunder, which was launched in July 2013 and has resulted in the detention of 11,000 suspects and the seizure of eight tonnes of drugs.
  • (13) Who would have thought coming in that in a game featuring LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Paul George, Roy Hibbert, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen, Indiana's Lance Stephenson would be the best player on the court by far.
  • (14) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
  • (15) Ignore the criticism and the played out, ( often transphobic ) jokes: there's a reason the Heat ran into trouble when Bosh was out with an abdominal injury in the 2012 playoffs.
  • (16) Dwyane Wade (3-13 FG, 10 points) was subdued and perhaps feeling his troublesome knees again and Chris Bosh had just 12 points, while point guard Mario Chalmers’ almighty struggles continued.
  • (17) If Wade and Bosh are healthier and more effective than they were during the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat should be able to the defeat the Spurs.
  • (18) Chris Bosh finally breaks through with a jumper and someone calls a timeout.
  • (19) Updated at 2.22am BST 2.20am BST Pacers 29-39 Heat - 5:52 remaining, 2nd Quarter West makes a jumper, but unfortunately for him that's completely overshadowed by the reappearance of Chris Bosh from the multiverse, he knocks off five straight points, the last three on a downtown shot assisted by the also recently resurrected Ray Allen and the Pacers call mercy... er, timeout.
  • (20) If we learned anything from LeBron’s last Decision, when very few real or self-styled insiders had him joining Bosh and Wade in Miami, it’s that nobody truly knows how the NBA offseason will pan out until all the contracts are signed (and sometimes not even then).

Tosh


Definition:

  • (a.) Neat; trim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After removal of the Z group by catalytic hydrogenation and acetylation Ac-Arg(p-TosH)-NHMe was obtained.
  • (2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
  • (3) The Treasury has stopped trying to blame the eurozone for the state of the economy, which is just as well since that was tosh.
  • (4) Or, to put it more straightforwardly: most of what is in the Bible is complete tosh.
  • (5) Unfortunately, Julian's tape ends there and as £20 seems an awful lot to charge for this tosh we're including 100 pages of WikiLeaks documents you've already read before.
  • (6) Photograph: Alamy Some of this may have been tosh – we don’t wave flags because a politician advises us to, but do it quite naturally for sporting events and the like – but at least it was consistent tosh.
  • (7) I took them and bolted them on to high-end meta-tosh.” His fellow researcher was the youthful Peter Bazalgette, who ended up as chair of the UK arm of Endemol Productions, and who made 1990s lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force.
  • (8) Tim Harford of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less tries to keep his head above the sea of tosh.
  • (9) Daniel Tosh continues to broadcast in the States, unbowed by the row that greeted his unpleasant response to a female heckler (“Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?”).
  • (10) He admits it has been the most difficult aspect of his job, but it has not deterred him from taking the government to task on issues including underperforming academy trusts and, most recently, plans to expand grammar schools to benefit the poor, which he dismissed as “palpable tosh and nonsense” .
  • (11) If they want to sit down and argue with me, some of them are talking out their backsides, a load of tosh and I'm not accepting it.
  • (12) CBR just hiked interest rates by 150bp - The military actions in Crimea are not without significant costs forRussua March 3, 2014 Katie Martin (@katie_martin_FX) Tim Ash, Standard Bank: "Complete tosh to think that all this aggressive action by Moscow will have no effect on the Russian economy" March 3, 2014 9.03am GMT Our Ukraine Liveblog My colleague Haroon Siddique is live-blogging the Ukraine crisis in detail again this morning, here: Ukraine crisis: ‘Russia in control of Crimea’ - live updates Russia has ‘complete operational control’ - US official ‘Russian armoured vehicles lining up across border’ Lavrov says China’s views coincide with Russia’s 8.53am GMT The cost of insuring Russia’s government debt against default has jumped to a nine-month high following Putin’s incursion into Crimea, and Russian bonds have also dropped in value.
  • (13) If you are used to being able to just make up any old tosh and have your marks eagerly repeat it with bells on, it no doubt becomes habit forming.
  • (14) It started in earnest in 2012, when comedian Daniel Tosh was accused of suggesting it would be funny if a female member of the audience was gang raped there and then.
  • (15) When Daniel Tosh was told by a female punter that "rape jokes are never funny" he asked the audience, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?
  • (16) He added: “The argument that grammar schools create social mobility is, in the words of the Ofsted chief inspector, ‘tosh and nonsense’,” he added.
  • (17) Ac-Arg(HCl)-NHMe was prepared by chromatography of the NG-TosH derivative on Dowex 44 (in Cl- form).
  • (18) "Some are talking out of their backsides, a load of tosh," he said.
  • (19) The New York Times critic wrote, "Peck plays with considerable skill, also avoiding in his acting the romantic tosh of the writing."
  • (20) All accounts of its heyday in the early-60s give the impression of Dodd's Brentford Road base being a kind of West Indian Stella Street: Lee Perry recording Delroy Wilson, Peter Tosh introducing Leonard Dillon of the Ethiopians, and Horace Andy queuing for a Sunday morning audition, all while Dodd was helping to piece together the Skatalites.