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Meanings of posh in English

Elegant and fashionable.

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Usage of posh in English
1
She says: When I first started uni, everyone thought I was posh.
The Guardian
2
French, because posh hotels and their customers expect sommeliers to be French.
The Irish Times
3
Or what used to pass for a posh hotel in west Dublin.
The Irish Times
4
Anytime she wanted to drive the posh family car, she got it.
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5
Then there's the social Harry: pretty rich, very posh and immensely privileged.
The Guardian
6
The castle was a castle indeed, and not merely a posh hotel.
Ringworld
7
High in the posh seats Rory McIlroy sported a George Best T-shirt.
The Guardian
8
It also owns a 9-storey office building in Tokyo's posh Aoyama district.
Reuters
9
They were very different films but the melancholic, indulged posh-girl persona stuck.
The Guardian
10
Gambo put on a posh accent and asked me for a light.
Fresh
11
Even the name is reassuringly calm and posh and unshowy and English.
The Guardian
12
Not the posh end, the other end where the normal stalls are.
Whispers Under Ground
13
I thought I'd posh-ed up my accent when I went to Cambridge.
The Guardian
14
Imagine how the posh lady dresses in Gogglebox and your halfway there.
The Irish Times
15
She does manage to retain a regal bearing and a posh accent.
Reuters
16
And UN Undersecretary Avasarala is hosting, so the accommodations are pretty posh.
Caliban's War
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Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
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