What's the difference between nosh and tosh?

Nosh


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Election day: the key points as they happen with the votes being tallied Read more At the hotel, an aide said at 8.30pm, the Clintons worked on the candidate’s planned remarks, and “noshed a little bit” on a buffet spread that included salmon, roasted carrots, vegan pizza and fries.
  • (2) Still, up for anything food related, I find myself in a central London flat (it’s central London only; of course it is) signing up for Supper in anticipation of some posh nosh without the need for all that tiresome restaurant-going.
  • (3) In addition to the live music, and DJ sets by Zero 7 and Greg Wilson, the festival has an important gastronomic component: L’Enclume’s Simon Rogan, Murano’s Angela Hartnett and Polpo’s Russell Norman will all be helping to prepare Wilderness’s “long table banquets”, with extra nosh by the chefs and bakers of St John.
  • (4) But if advertising authorities banned all inaccurate, arguable or just plain ridiculous language on food packets, our nosh would have to be wrapped, as cigarettes soon will be, in completely blank packaging.
  • (5) This is the woman who noshed off Ian Beale for enough cash to keep her in oven chips for a fortnight.
  • (6) We are going to give the world a ship called NOSH Ukip is proposing to build and equip a naval hospital that wouldn’t carry weapons, but could instead be used to “confirm Britain’s status as a force for good in the world”.
  • (7) It is A: “I need a Thai green curry, sticky rice and can you bring it to me straight away?” Posh nosh: Britain's big appetite for gourmet takeaway Read more Deliveroo is a new business that will bring you food from restaurants – not just any old takeaway , mind – for a £2.50 fee.
  • (8) Which all sounds great, except they have called it “a Naval Ocean-Going Surgical Hospital”, or NOSH for short.

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.