posh
posh
Definition
posh (päs̸h)
adjective
Informal luxurious and fashionable; elegant
Etymology: prob. < obs. Brit slang posh, earlier push, poosh, a dandy < ?
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Synonyms
posh
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- sound: Hi Thank you very much for your help I am a operations training delivery specialist, sounds a bit posh!
Infinitive complement
- push: Both of our children were born within the NHS and I certainly wasn't too posh to push.
Modifies a noun
- frock: More time was devoted to the descriptions of the posh frocks than was given to the unions to explain their case against these cuts.
- nosh: There's got to be a reason why people are prepared to pay top dollar for a spot of posh nosh.
- totty: After Akademi went bust the party loving posh totty was left owing £ 350,000.
- accent: No posh accents on T.V. No sharks swimming in the custard.
- suburb: The Ham & High reports on the number of basement excavations currently taking place in the posh suburb.
- hotel: A posh hotel in Earth's Home Counties Who?
Modifying Another Word
- rather: How can a rather posh looking band with well crafted polite songs, be defiant?
- too: Are you too posh for our movie motors quiz?
- slightly: Galleria has a similar down-to-earth but slightly posh style to Browns.
- very: Only very posh people like Dame Maggie get six months.
- quite: I remember thinking it was quite posh to be learning Latin.
- really: To be REALLY posh you could buy two, one for the wash down afterward.
Used with adjective complement
- talk: Plus they tend to talk posh, which bites, frankly.
- sound: This is a State Campground, which sounds posh.
- look: The area around looks posh, I'm guessing someone has actually requested the area to be obscured?
- get: My home is a small stone terraced house in a part of Bolton which is getting posh.
- go: There is a look that chippies get when they go posh.
- feel: I use terry squares with plastic pants and sometimes with a plastic diaper wrap for when I'm feeling posh.
Browse dictionary entries near posh
- poseur
- poser
- Poseidon
- posed
- pose
- posada
- pos
- portulaca
- Portuguese West Africa
- Portuguese water dog
- poshly
- poshness
- posies
- posing
- posit
- position
- position building
- position paper
- position trader
- positional
