posh
1 Americaninterjection
adjective
adjective
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smart, elegant, or fashionable; exclusive
posh clothes
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upper-class or genteel
adverb
Usage
What else does posh mean? The adjective posh means that something or someone is rich, fancy, or otherwise smells of money.
Other Word Forms
- poshness noun
Etymology
Origin of posh1
First recorded in 1920–25
Origin of posh1
1915–20; of obscure origin; compare posh a dandy (recorded as British slang in 1890); the popular notion that the word is an acronym from port out(ward) , starboard home, said to be the preferred accommodation on ships traveling between England and India, is without foundation
Example Sentences
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There is no war here yet and everything feels quite posh.
From Literature
"You get their posh voice, their telephone voice, they're quite grown up."
From BBC
I replied that I’d heard rumors that Park City calculated there was more money in catering to the posh ski crowd than, say, film critics.
From Los Angeles Times
"My baby son has been having the poshest baths - six bottles of mineral water and two kettles," he said.
From BBC
His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.
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