Source — direct dictionary checks for "toska" (all negative or blocked)

• Title: (compiled record of direct fetch checks, not a single external page)
• Author: this project (direct verification checks)
• Publication: n/a — a filed record of several direct WebFetch checks against major English reference works
• Date: checks performed 2026-09-04
• URL(s) checked:
  • https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toska — HTTP 404
  • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toska (Latin-script title, distinct from the Cyrillic тоска page) — resolves, but its only language section is Albanian, glossing "toska" as an inflected form of toskë ("Tosk," the southern Albanian dialect/ethnonym), unrelated to the Russian word; no English section exists.
  • https://www.dictionary.com/browse/toska — redirects to the unrelated entry "tosa" (a Japanese dog breed), with a "Search instead for toska?noredirect=true" suggestion link; no dedicated entry.
  • https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/toska — HTTP 403 (consistent with this project's standing Collins Dictionary fence).
  • https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/toska — HTTP 403 (new negative for Cambridge's general English dictionary; not previously fenced for a Russian-source word).
  • https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/toska — HTTP 403.
  • OED: not directly checked — standing fence (oed.com redirects to an OAuth login wall for every word on this project's file). WebSearch across several queries (general, and specifically against OED's own March/June 2026 "new words" update pages) found no report, secondary or otherwise, of toska ever being added as an OED headword — an absence of evidence, not confirmed non-adoption, consistent with this project's under-claim rule.

Extract

• No dedicated entry exists for "toska" in Merriam-Webster, English Wiktionary (Latin-script title), or Dictionary.com — each directly checked. This matches the pattern this project has now found for several other words (litost, ya'aburnee) rather than being unusual.
• Collins, Cambridge, and Oxford Learner's are all blocked (HTTP 403) to direct fetch, consistent with the standing fence for Collins/Cambridge/Oxford Learner's noted on prior word pages — not confirmed negative, just inaccessible.
• No claim of OED coverage was found by search, unlike (for instance) gigil, hygge, or jugaad, all of which have at least secondary-sourced reports of OED headword status.

Gaps

• Collins, Cambridge, and Oxford Learner's dictionary content for "toska" remains genuinely unread — blocked, not confirmed absent.
• Whether toska appears in Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables is unchecked, as for every other word on this project's file.

Used in

• Toska