10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOSHY»
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A Sharp Intake of Breath
Winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Awards - Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction Born with a split lip and cleft palate, Toshy Wolfman's life is an uphill battle.
by John Miller Born with a split lip and cleft palate, Toshy Wolfman's life is an
uphill battle. Believing he is dim-witted and ugly, Toshy finds his resentment
slowly building as he is ridiculed, used, and misled. Ultimately, he is imprisoned
after ...
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The English dialect dictionary
2; (3) Toshy, sb. a nickname for any one with a projecting or unseemly tooth. (1)
Nrf. She looks a fine mare. Let's look at her mouth. \Vhy Bor! l thought you said
she was a five year old ! She's seven, and a tosh mare too. Don't you know the
old ...
Since his mother wasn't there he just figured that she was already at the mansion
although he knew at the mansion it would be Toshy setting the table. As they
moved through the house toward the dining room Beatles couldn't help to notice
...
Barry Kohl, Samuel Veta, 2003
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf. tosher, q.v. Cognate with—perhaps ex—E. Anglian toshy, muddy, sticky.—9. A
term of address, to male friend or stranger, as in 'Wotcher, Toshl': proletarian;
common in army, WW2, and much affected by spivs in the imm. post-war years: ...
Believing he is dim- witted and ugly, Toshy finds his resentment slowly building
as he is ridiculed and used. But Toshy 's love for his sisters drives him to some of
the bravest decisions of his life. ADAM'S PEAK by Heather Burt $2 1. 99, £ l 1.50
...
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The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art
Mr. Hall Toshy, manager-producer, is discovered reading the "Daily Sketch"; he is
very excited. Suddenly an idea occurs to him, he flings the " Daily Sketch " upon
the floor, and seizing a pencil makes a hurried note in his pocket-book. Mr. Hall ...
Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, 1915
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Laws of New-York, from the 11th Nov. 1752, to 22d May 1762: ...
be'forthwith printed, rfiade'afid issued, hpon the Credit of the Money to be
BZTFMY 'of th? raised and levied by Virtue of this Act, and lodged in the Treasury
for that * ss '_Purpose 3 that is toshy, Two Thousand and Two, Hundred Bills of ...
New York (Colony), William Livingston, William Smith, 1762
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Modern Entries, in English: Being a Select Collection of ...
... That after that the said John had pleaded that he was not guilty thereof, and it
had been found by a certain jury, that he had been guilty thereof. (that is toshy) in
Miehaelma: term then next following ; it was considered here by the same ...
Toshy hasn't a clue about art. Typical that he'd try to steal one of those Tretchikov-
type Spanish women portraits, all tits and black hair with a matador doing his
mascara in the background. It was ghastly! I don't want my reputation besmirched
...
Andrew Murray Scott, 2000
