poshy

comparative poshier · superlative poshiest

1. archaicagricultureOf land: sticky, clayey, binding.

   Plant shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen; but avoid a poshy state of the land, if it be binding or clayey.

   1849, British Farmer's Magazine, number 16, page 461

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   I prefer a deep, rich loam, neither clay nor sand, but what the plough boys call "poshy land," sticks to the plough […]

   1877, Southern Cultivator, volume 35, page 306

comparative poshier · superlative poshiest

1. colloquialPosh.

   North Ryde was open, real poshy people used to be there.

   1999, Peter Read, quoting Aileen Wedge, “‘I’d never put anybody in jail’”, in A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2020, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The oral evidence)

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   Trau, “The Morning Show”, Tele Reviews, page 27, column 5: Casting the top news developments, here and there supported by films, is Charles Collingwood, another down-to-earther despite the poshy aura about his background (Rhodes scholar, etc.) and the meticulous grooming. Abel, “Shirl Conway”, New Acts, page 55, column 5: Shirl Conway has been around in the poshier bistros and, after a European sabbatical, is back in the U.S., at the Maisonette of the plush St. Regis Hotel.

   1954 March 17, Variety, volume 194, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Variety, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily clever PostModern collection of artefacts behind him: […]

   2000, James Hawes, “Among the Dead, Live”, in Dead Long Enough, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 9

   Well, look how nothing changes in the world / who turns it? Royal runt and poshy girl!

   2003, Bryony Lavery, “Discontented Winter: House Remix”, in Shell Connections 2004: New Plays for Young People, London: Faber and Faber, published 2004, →ISBN, section 19 (Make Yourselves Ready in Your Cabins), page 257

   By six o’clock the stores had closed, and at the appointed hour the little group of friends gathered for dinner at Detroit’s poshiest restaurant—The London Chop House. […] Not surprisingly, some of Al’s fellow officers were incensed when they were given tourist class accommodations while the German POW officers were given poshy First Class accommodations.

   2008, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, →ISBN, pages 196 (The Home Front) and 227 (Home at Last)

   The idea of spending a lot of time with the sexy, poshy girl Stormy was cool, but a trip to Rome was better, a lot better.

   2012 December 4, Isabella Monroe, “Lullaby”, in The Fresher: You’re Every Minute Closer to the Truth…, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 41