posh

comparative posher · comparative more posh · superlative poshest · superlative most posh

1. Associated with the upper classes.

   She talks with a posh accent.

   1 more example

   In antenatal clinic, an extremely posh patient attends for a routine appointment. All is well with her extremely posh fetus. Her extremely posh eight-year-old asks her a question about the economy (!), and before she answers, she asks her extremely posh five-year-old, ‘Do you know what the economy is, darling?’ ’Yes, Mummy. It’s the part of the plane that’s terrible.’

   2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

   Synonyms: upper-crust

2. Stylish; elegant; exclusive; luxurious; expensive.

   Near-synonym: plush

   3 more examples

   After the performance, they went out to a very posh restaurant.

   “Miss Shaw’s got a new frock,” said Harriet. ”So she has! How posh of her! […]”

   1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

   Jan Petter Vala is serving part of a 10-year murder sentence on a posh island in southern Norway.

   2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN

   Synonyms: high-end, plush

3. Northern EnglandScotlandespeciallyoffensiveusuallySnobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.

   We have a right posh git moving in next door.

   Synonyms: stuck-up

1. An exclamation expressing derision.

   The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him.

   1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Was

plural poshes

1. UKcountableobsoleteslangA halfpenny or other coin of little value.
2. UKobsoleteslanguncountableMoney.

present singular third person poshes · participle present poshing · participle past poshed · past poshed

1. To make posh or posher (more posh).

   Synonyms: poshen

plural poshes

1. countabledialectaluncountableA sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water.

   There has been quite a posh of rain.

   1942, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire

   2 more examples

   Did yer see what a posh the water came down the bruck ater the thaw, and no wonder the snow was a fut deep.

   1897 March 6, Leamington Courier, quoted in the EDD

   I could hear the posh of water issuing from the mouth of a lion fountain that was set in a nearby niche. He was on his knees, kissing my feet and legs until I was in a state of churning lust.

   2021 July 28, Diana Elmore, Footprints in Time: Memoirs of Previous Lifetimes, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 83

2. uncountableFragments produced by an impact.
3. uncountableSlush.

1. slangball gamesPeterborough United F.C., a football club from Peterborough, England.

   Peterbough United have been playing at Lincoln, in something of a local derby. EMR has put on a six-car Class 158 as an additional train, to take 'Posh' fans home (Posh is the team's nickname, by the way).

   2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58