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Definition of posh in English: poshadjective pɒʃpɑʃ informal 1Elegant or stylishly luxurious. 优雅的；时髦的，豪华的 一家优雅的慕尼黑酒店。 我得看起来时髦一点。 Example sentencesExamples - Loser buys the winner two rounds of drinks on opening night at the hotel's posh bar.
- In our posh London hotel suite, she glides through, thanks the press girl, and is regally solicitous when a tape recorder coughs and dies.
- Howard, having, bought off all other shareholders was answerable to no one and operated through telephones while living in posh hotels.
- For my birthday, my friends and I ended up in Harry's Bar, a very posh and luxurious bar in a posh and luxurious part of town.
- These guests seriously enjoy dressing up in very posh frocks and stylish black ties for dinner.
- I've left the comforting surroundings of rural Norfolk, and I'm staying in a posh hotel in Marylebone Lane, London.
- He's probably still waiting for you at his flat or posh hotel, whatever it is.
- In the middle of the fest, private rooms offering charming traditional and local atmosphere could be rented at prices a few times lower than the posh hotels.
- We meet in a tiny plush room in a posh London hotel which is the regular haunt for such interviews.
- I got a room at a posh hotel in Dorchester, for the night after the wedding, and the night after that, paying far more per night than I could afford.
- Or is there anyplace at all left in the world now where one can swagger around in stylish khaki like a posh colonial looking for some game to shoot?
- The fact that I was traveling to an exciting new city with a posh hotel room didn't hurt either.
- A grand bash to celebrate his birthday was held in a posh hotel only five days earlier.
- Hampstead is rich, posh, exclusive, arty, cosmopolitan - little of which appears to have rubbed off on me.
- The situation is the same when I visit hotels and posh offices.
- Many of those calls he says come from posh hotels and prestigious New York addresses dispelling the myth that bed bugs only reside in filth.
- Be it a midnight operation to nab criminals or surprise raid on luxurious houses in posh localities, she is always there to lead from the front.
- A friend is visiting me and we plan to lunch at a posh hotel.
- The crowd is a mix between trendy hotel visitors and posh Londoners.
- A lilac purple with touches of green and gold make the dining area welcoming and elegant, cosy but posh.
- We were surrounded by the old-fashioned glamor of the lobby of the grandest hotel in this posh French seaside resort.
Synonyms smart, stylish, upmarket, fancy, high-class, fashionable, chic, luxurious, luxury, deluxe, exclusive, select, sumptuous, opulent, lavish, grand, rich, elegant, ornate, ostentatious, showy North American high-toned, upscale informal classy, swanky, snazzy, plush, plushy, ritzy, flash, la-di-da, fancy-pants British informal swish North American informal swank, tony US informal dicty South African informal larney British informal, dated swagger derogatory chichi archaic swell rare sprauncy - 1.1British Typical of or belonging to the upper class.
〈主英〉上流人士的，上流社会的 她说话带有上流人士的腔调。 Example sentencesExamples - I have the posh education, I have the posh accent, I'm not a bad shot.
- And he saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive.
- ‘I have said to you before that if you have a PhD and a posh accent from a school like yours, you are regarded as a sophisticate,’ he said.
- Soon, the car pulled into the car park of the most upper-class, posh and wealthy sports club in the entire state.
- A posh boy from the Home Counties is rewarded for his self-discipline, hard work and ambition.
- Bourne melds eloquent dance moves and witty everyday gestures to evoke crumbling class divides in this story of the downward spiral of an upper-class man and his posh girlfriend.
- There are some very funny lines peppered around and Neve Campbell does a very good posh English accent - but this is something of a one-trick pony.
- Thankfully, the days when a posh accent implied intelligence are fading fast, partly under the pressure of modern media.
- But whilst sounding posh seems to have become deeply unfashionable amongst upper class youth, the lifestyle that goes with posh hasn't.
- Without that fragility, nobody would watch this posh woman with a cut-glass accent.
- At Betty Parsons's antenatal classes, which were very Sloaney and posh, I was the only short, fat Jewish mother.
- Oh, and people with unpleasantly posh Home Counties accents who speak far louder than they need to in an enclosed space should probably be gagged with gaffer tape.
- Her accent is unredeemed posh but her politics are Old Labour.
- She was short, with big curly brown hair and a little bald husband, and she was always cheery and happy and had an improbably posh accent and as with most such people a fearsome temper that you really didn't want to provoke.
- And there is something very patronising about people with posh accents telling working-class people that their windows are too dirty.
- I come from Chigwell don't you know - the posh part of Essex.
- He dubbed himself Alistair, traded in his homely Midlands accent for one closer to Mayfair, and cultivated a posh circle of friends.
- Her posh accent left no one in doubt as to her upper class breeding.
- I say supremely in an upper-class, posh sort of tone.
- Despite my southern accent, I am not what you would call posh.
Synonyms upper-class, aristocratic, upmarket, Home Counties informal upper-crust, top-drawer British informal plummy, Sloaney, U
adverb pɒʃpɑʃ British informal In an upper-class way. 〈英〉上流人士的方式 试图像上流人士那样说话。
noun pɒʃpɑʃ mass nounBritish informal The quality of being elegant, stylish, or upper class. 〈英〉优雅；时髦；上流社会水准 we finally bought a colour TV, which seemed the height of posh 我们终于买了一台彩电，似乎够得上上流社会水准。 Example sentencesExamples - They're right posh, and spawning, but people don't go onto Parkinson to be treated like disobedient children.
- They come across as a little bit unhinged, a little bit posh (or at least upper - middle), but actually quite charming and disarmingly open.
- Not proper posh - they're all East End types made good.
- I've been to a tonne of media events that sound dead posh (some were) but were all about work.
- Its a settee, occasionally a couch if we're feeling posh.
- My bullying started on the very first day at school and I was called a snob and posh because I had a different accent to the rest of my classmates.
- When I first joined, after I'd been in art school, I was understudying and they thought I was posh because I didn't happen to have a broad Glasgow accent.
- The economic implications of the new posh having big rather than small families are enormous and will be initially felt in the children's services game.
- We do them up dead posh - swimming pools, jacuzzis, the lot.
- And we didn't see much of him until recently (too posh for us lot, some say) but now his mother is seriously ill and, to give him his due, he visits her every couple of days.
- Lytham is dead posh, with lovely seaside cottages and a wide grassy prom facing the Southport straits.
- Move over trailer trash here come the park home posh.
- But it's a nice wee place, and is dead posh to boot, so it's survived pretty well.
- He too gave off an air of upper-classness, but, like his father, he didn't seem at all posh.
- It is often informally referred to by the British middle class as a BBC accent or a public school accent and by the working class as talking proper or talking posh.
verb pɒʃ [with object]posh someone/something upBritish informal Smarten someone or something up. 〈英〉打扮，使变得时髦，使变得漂亮 we will be getting all poshed up for the company summer ball Example sentencesExamples - The interior seems cheap, despite the attempt to posh it up.
Synonyms renovate, refurbish, refit, restore, redecorate, decorate, revamp, make over, modernize, improve, spruce up, smarten up, brighten up, prettify, enhance
Derivativesadverb informal In the more poshly trimmed versions, you can fold the back seats flat, too, opening up a space into which you could probably fit, not just the shopping, but also a sheepdog of average growth, provided you pushed hard. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Oh I suppose that makes it better, I'm afraid I'm busy ’, She replied poshly.
- He was dressed neatly enough, but not too poshly, and he had dark brown hair, tanned skin and piercing greenish-blue eyes.
- Plastered on the front in boring font accompanied by a small picture of a big building similar to that of a large church with girls wearing brown skirts or pinafores, brown jackets and white blouses their hair all poshly done.
- When the children were babies, I would place them in a small wooden carriage and walk them on the geometrically designed concrete path through a beautiful garden of perfect flowers and poshly grown trees.
noun informal By the end of the evening the combination of the violins, the wine and the heady atmosphere of privilege and poshness have us walking on air as we leave. Example sentencesExamples - I was a bit prejudiced against him because of his poshness and although he was very polite and appreciative it was almost as if he didn't recognise how bad his situation was and just how kind Liz was being.
- He seems obsessed with poshness - wanting to ‘eat out somewhere a bit posh’ and finding the food ‘rather posh’.
- It has a veritable passion for worshipping those people who are endowed with celebrity and vast visible wealth; yet it has an instinctive antipathy towards poshness and uppity aspirations.
- Whether it was the poshness of her voice, the crispness of her syntax or whatever, I decided to listen… ‘Blah, blah, blah, your son has won a competition’
OriginEarly 20th century: perhaps from slang posh, denoting a dandy. There is no evidence to support the folk etymology that posh is formed from the initials of port out starboard home (referring to the more comfortable accommodation, out of the heat of the sun, on ships between England and India). One of the more frequently repeated explanations of the origin of a word is the story that posh, comes from the initials of ‘port out, starboard home’. This is supposed to refer to the location of the more desirable cabins—on the port side on the outward trip and on the starboard side on the return—on passenger ships between Britain and India in the 19th century. Such cabins would be sheltered from the heat of the sun or benefit from cooling breezes, and so were reserved by wealthy passengers. Sadly, there is no evidence to support this neat and ingenious explanation. The P&O steamship company is supposed to have stamped tickets with the letters P.O.S.H., but no tickets like this have ever been found. A more likely explanation is that the word comes from a 19th-century slang term for a dandy, from thieves' slang for ‘money’. The first recorded example of posh is from a 1915 issue of Blackwood's Magazine.
Rhymesawash, Bosch, bosh, brioche, cloche, cohosh, cosh, dosh, Foch, galosh, gosh, josh, mosh, nosh, quash, slosh, splosh, squash, swash, tosh, wash Definition of posh in US English: poshadjectivepäSHpɑʃ informal 1Elegant or stylishly luxurious. 优雅的；时髦的，豪华的 一家优雅的慕尼黑酒店。 Example sentencesExamples - I got a room at a posh hotel in Dorchester, for the night after the wedding, and the night after that, paying far more per night than I could afford.
- These guests seriously enjoy dressing up in very posh frocks and stylish black ties for dinner.
- Be it a midnight operation to nab criminals or surprise raid on luxurious houses in posh localities, she is always there to lead from the front.
- He's probably still waiting for you at his flat or posh hotel, whatever it is.
- A grand bash to celebrate his birthday was held in a posh hotel only five days earlier.
- Howard, having, bought off all other shareholders was answerable to no one and operated through telephones while living in posh hotels.
- A lilac purple with touches of green and gold make the dining area welcoming and elegant, cosy but posh.
- Many of those calls he says come from posh hotels and prestigious New York addresses dispelling the myth that bed bugs only reside in filth.
- A friend is visiting me and we plan to lunch at a posh hotel.
- Hampstead is rich, posh, exclusive, arty, cosmopolitan - little of which appears to have rubbed off on me.
- I've left the comforting surroundings of rural Norfolk, and I'm staying in a posh hotel in Marylebone Lane, London.
- The situation is the same when I visit hotels and posh offices.
- Loser buys the winner two rounds of drinks on opening night at the hotel's posh bar.
- For my birthday, my friends and I ended up in Harry's Bar, a very posh and luxurious bar in a posh and luxurious part of town.
- In the middle of the fest, private rooms offering charming traditional and local atmosphere could be rented at prices a few times lower than the posh hotels.
- We were surrounded by the old-fashioned glamor of the lobby of the grandest hotel in this posh French seaside resort.
- The crowd is a mix between trendy hotel visitors and posh Londoners.
- In our posh London hotel suite, she glides through, thanks the press girl, and is regally solicitous when a tape recorder coughs and dies.
- We meet in a tiny plush room in a posh London hotel which is the regular haunt for such interviews.
- The fact that I was traveling to an exciting new city with a posh hotel room didn't hurt either.
- Or is there anyplace at all left in the world now where one can swagger around in stylish khaki like a posh colonial looking for some game to shoot?
Synonyms smart, stylish, upmarket, fancy, high-class, fashionable, chic, luxurious, luxury, deluxe, exclusive, select, sumptuous, opulent, lavish, grand, rich, elegant, ornate, ostentatious, showy - 1.1British Typical of or belonging to the upper class of society.
〈主英〉上流人士的，上流社会的 她说话带有上流人士的腔调。 Example sentencesExamples - Without that fragility, nobody would watch this posh woman with a cut-glass accent.
- At Betty Parsons's antenatal classes, which were very Sloaney and posh, I was the only short, fat Jewish mother.
- Bourne melds eloquent dance moves and witty everyday gestures to evoke crumbling class divides in this story of the downward spiral of an upper-class man and his posh girlfriend.
- I say supremely in an upper-class, posh sort of tone.
- Her accent is unredeemed posh but her politics are Old Labour.
- Thankfully, the days when a posh accent implied intelligence are fading fast, partly under the pressure of modern media.
- He dubbed himself Alistair, traded in his homely Midlands accent for one closer to Mayfair, and cultivated a posh circle of friends.
- I come from Chigwell don't you know - the posh part of Essex.
- There are some very funny lines peppered around and Neve Campbell does a very good posh English accent - but this is something of a one-trick pony.
- ‘I have said to you before that if you have a PhD and a posh accent from a school like yours, you are regarded as a sophisticate,’ he said.
- And he saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive.
- Her posh accent left no one in doubt as to her upper class breeding.
- She was short, with big curly brown hair and a little bald husband, and she was always cheery and happy and had an improbably posh accent and as with most such people a fearsome temper that you really didn't want to provoke.
- Despite my southern accent, I am not what you would call posh.
- And there is something very patronising about people with posh accents telling working-class people that their windows are too dirty.
- But whilst sounding posh seems to have become deeply unfashionable amongst upper class youth, the lifestyle that goes with posh hasn't.
- A posh boy from the Home Counties is rewarded for his self-discipline, hard work and ambition.
- I have the posh education, I have the posh accent, I'm not a bad shot.
- Oh, and people with unpleasantly posh Home Counties accents who speak far louder than they need to in an enclosed space should probably be gagged with gaffer tape.
- Soon, the car pulled into the car park of the most upper-class, posh and wealthy sports club in the entire state.
Synonyms upper-class, aristocratic, upmarket, home counties
adverbpäSHpɑʃ British informal In an upper-class way. 〈英〉上流人士的方式 试图像上流人士那样说话。
nounpäSHpɑʃ British informal The quality or state of being elegant, stylish, or upper-class. 〈英〉优雅；时髦；上流社会水准 we finally bought a color TV, which seemed the height of posh 我们终于买了一台彩电，似乎够得上上流社会水准。 Example sentencesExamples - But it's a nice wee place, and is dead posh to boot, so it's survived pretty well.
- I've been to a tonne of media events that sound dead posh (some were) but were all about work.
- Lytham is dead posh, with lovely seaside cottages and a wide grassy prom facing the Southport straits.
- The economic implications of the new posh having big rather than small families are enormous and will be initially felt in the children's services game.
- And we didn't see much of him until recently (too posh for us lot, some say) but now his mother is seriously ill and, to give him his due, he visits her every couple of days.
- Its a settee, occasionally a couch if we're feeling posh.
- Not proper posh - they're all East End types made good.
- My bullying started on the very first day at school and I was called a snob and posh because I had a different accent to the rest of my classmates.
- It is often informally referred to by the British middle class as a BBC accent or a public school accent and by the working class as talking proper or talking posh.
- He too gave off an air of upper-classness, but, like his father, he didn't seem at all posh.
- When I first joined, after I'd been in art school, I was understudying and they thought I was posh because I didn't happen to have a broad Glasgow accent.
- They come across as a little bit unhinged, a little bit posh (or at least upper - middle), but actually quite charming and disarmingly open.
- We do them up dead posh - swimming pools, jacuzzis, the lot.
- They're right posh, and spawning, but people don't go onto Parkinson to be treated like disobedient children.
- Move over trailer trash here come the park home posh.
OriginEarly 20th century: perhaps from slang posh, denoting a dandy. There is no evidence to support the folk etymology that posh is formed from the initials of port out starboard home (referring to the more comfortable accommodation, out of the heat of the sun, on ships between England and India). |