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posh
1[ posh ]
adjective
- sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious:
a posh apartment.
posh
2[ posh ]
interjection
- (used as an exclamation of contempt or disgust.)
posh
/ pɒʃ /
adjective
- smart, elegant, or fashionable; exclusive
posh clothes
- upper-class or genteel
adverb
- in a manner associated with the upper class
to talk posh
Derived Forms
- ˈposhness, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of posh1
Origin of posh2
Word History and Origins
Origin of posh1
Example Sentences
Over the past few days, photos have trickled out showing the happy couple and their guests zipping around Venice on posh boats.
Despite the profusion of products, the star—as the U.N. clearly knows—will always be Posh herself.
Her father built a successful business and the family lives in an $800,000 sandstone house in a posh Glasgow suburb.
Earlier this month a brand new art museum opened in the posh mountain resort town of Aspen, Colorado.
Bogie and Bacall purchased a $160,000 mansion in Holmby Hills, a posh enclave in Los Angeles, and played house.
So I went down to the harbour basins and the fish wharves, and asked of “Posh” and his “governor.”
There can be no doubt that at that time, when he was twenty-seven years of age, Posh was an exceptionally comely and stalwart man.
According to Posh, the original name of this schooner was the Shamrock, but she has become famous as the Scandal.
Posh knew the man as a good-hearted friend, a man of jealous affection, as a free-handed business partner, as a lover of the sea.
The last year has put more than ten years on the looks and bearing of the Posh whom I met first.
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