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)

Excised "other meanings"
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)

Excised text: "Tosher" was also recorded from a slightly earlier period as undergraduates' slang for "an unattached or non-collegiate student at a university having residential colleges."

A similar-sounding term from the same period, "tosheroon" has been applied to a tosher in error, but denotes a piece of pre-decimal British currency: the crown.

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)