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 ● Dec. 17, 2020
And it can also be found virtually everywhere, sometimes going by a variety of other regional names: sembe, ngima, kuon, obokima, posho, to name just a few.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2015
So the director thought she was a Cambridge posho?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2013
He's doing the same "preoccupied posho" thing he did, regrettably, as Winston Churchill in The King's Speech and, regrettablier, as Winston Churchill in the Olympic closing ceremony.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013
"Six rupees a month and posho," he said promptly.
From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy
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