posho
Britishnoun
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corn meal
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payment of workers in foodstuffs rather than money
Etymology
Origin of posho
from Swahili
Example Sentences
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As Camilla Parker Bowles, Fennell plays a character with an upbringing she’s familiar with — “I’m basically playing a chain-smoking posho standing in a corner making cutting remarks,” she said.
From New York Times
“Why they moved a posho in Hell Close?” their new next-door neighbor asks her husband as the Queen begins unloading her furniture out of the moving van.
From Slate
With a delivery best approximated as a living checklist of stroke warnings, his bumbling posho shtick almost resembles buffering, a kind of 3G Wodehouse.
From The Guardian
A professional posho quit Waitrose magazine for a joke about killing vegans.
From The Guardian
Maize is not only a common dish in most households in Kenya but it is also a familiar food across east, central and southern Africa, going by different names such as nshima, sima, sadza, mealie meal or posho.
From BBC
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