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单词 posho
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posho1

nounPlural poshos ˈpɒʃəʊ
British informal
  • An upper-class person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a posho archetype that Grant has successfully revisited - not least in the semi-sequel Notting Hill - but it's a caricature he's never been all that comfortable with.
    • Not the kind of lust filled leering but that which pseudo poshos use at art galleries when they're trying to comprehend how exactly a dirty bed can win the Turner Prize.
    • This led to the very British cultural social comedy of left-wing poshos such as the Foots being outraged by the upstart, while outsiders who should on paper have been Labour voters recognised her as one of them.
    • Pointing out that media poshos sneering at council houses isn't much of a groundbreaker.
    • There's no more humane way to deal with a drunken, braying posho than to let an angry Alsatian deal with it.
    • I set off to Supabarn just now to buy him some posho dog food, to try and ease the pain that comes from being perpetually soaked.
    • One of the funniest episodes of the television program I ever saw featured an elderly couple of poshos with an oil painting that had lain undisturbed and unloved in their garage for decades.
    • They met, couple, fall in love and get married… much to posho family's disgust.
    • The rest of the gang have supporting roles, including the only posho on the wing who insists on being King George.
    • And now - hurrah - the gang of mega-brained poshos from MI5 are back for a new series and more crazy international crime-busting.
    • Quite good it may be, but I realise that I don't want Abe, my miniature dachshund, fraternising with these bipolar poshos.
    • But I was never going to give it to her or her stinky posho college.
    • ‘It was something I was probably subconsciously doing to ‘fit in’,’ she laughs, ‘for fear of being seen as a middle-class posho with a comfy life, but of course it marked me out immediately.’

posho2

nounPlural poshos ˈpɒʃəʊ
mass noun
  • (in East Africa) daily rations consisting typically of maize or rice, given to soldiers or in payment for menial work.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is ground into flour and prepared as a porridge called posho, which is sometimes mixed with mashed beans, potatoes, and vegetables, to make a dish called irio.
    • The most common staple food is a thick porridge known variously as ugali, sadza, nsima, or posho made from maize or finger millet.

Origin

Kiswahili, literally 'daily rations'.

 
 
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