Tosh
WordNet
noun
(1) Pretentious or silly talk or writing
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Origin unknown. Possibly derived from , therefore something of minimal worth.
Noun
- Silly nonsense; twaddle, balderdash.
- 1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ch. 5,
- Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and tosh.
- 1911, H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ch. 5,