Word forms: comparative posher, superlative poshest
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe something as posh, you mean that it is smart, fashionable, and expensive.
[informal]
Celebrating a promotion, I took her to a posh hotel for a cocktail.
...a posh car.
...a posh dinner party.
Synonyms: smart, grand, exclusive, luxury More Synonyms of posh
2. adjective
If you describe a person as posh, you mean that they belong to or behave as if they belong to the upper classes.
[informal]
I wouldn't have thought she had such posh friends.
He sounded so posh on the phone.
Synonyms: upper-class, high-class, top-drawer, plummy More Synonyms of posh
posh in British English
(pɒʃ) informal, mainly British
adjective
1.
smart, elegant, or fashionable; exclusive
posh clothes
2.
upper-class or genteel
adverb
3.
in a manner associated with the upper class
to talk posh
Derived forms
poshness (ˈposhness)
noun
Word origin
C19: often said to be an acronym of the phrase port out, starboard home, the most desirable location for a cabin in British ships sailing to and from theEast, being the north-facing or shaded side; but more likely to be a development ofobsolete slang posh a dandy
posh in American English
(pɑʃ)
adjective
Informal
luxurious and fashionable; elegant
Derived forms
poshly (ˈposhly)
adverb
poshness (ˈposhness)
noun
Word origin
prob. < obs. Brit slang posh, earlier push, poosh, a dandy < ?
Synonyms of 'posh'
smart, grand, exclusive, luxury
upper-class, high-class, top-drawer, plummy
More Synonyms of posh
In other languages
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British English: posh ADJECTIVE
If you describe something as posh, you mean that it is smart, fashionable, and expensive.