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
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 • Dec. 7, 2019
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
In addition to carrying the safari outfit, the porters must carry their posho, or cornmeal ration, and it is impossible for them to carry more than a limited number of days' rations.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.
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