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adjective (posher or more posh, poshest or most posh)
- Associated with the upper classes.
- She talks with a accent.
- Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).
- After the performance they went out to a very restaurant.
Translations: - Dutch: chic
- Dutch, chic, bekakt (pejorative)
- French: chic
- Spanish: pijo , pija, , elitista
Etymology: Unknown; popularly (but falsely) believed to be an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cabins given to upper-class passengers travelling with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company from Britain to India and back. The company denies this practice, despite christening its loyalty scheme the "P.O.S.H. Club" after the myth (the club has since been renamed "Portunus").A more likely origin is the Romany word posh meaning "half-", as in posh-kooroona meaning "half a crown" - a once-substantial sum of money, and hence by association anything pricey or upper-class. Alternatively posh may have first become a general term for money, after posh-houri, half-penny.See http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pos1.htm World Wide Words article on "posh" for other theories.
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