tosheroon
Noun
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Noun
tosheroon (plural tosheroons)
- (British, archaic slang) A half-crown coin; its value
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- ’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- (British, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
- Half-a-crown is known as an smallcaps alderman, smallcaps half a bull, smallcaps half a tusheroon, and a smallcaps madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a smallcaps bull, or a smallcaps caroon, or a smallcaps cartwheel, or a smallcaps coachwheel, or a smallcaps thick-un, or a smallcaps tusheroon.
- 1912, J.W. Horsley, I Remember, xii. 253
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
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