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# posh

adjective (posh, posher, poshest); adverb (informal)

«posh» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (informal, UK) Posh means very smart, expensive and fancy, like a posh hotel or a posh car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#m1)
2. (informal, UK) A posh person is from a rich, upper-class family, or speaks and acts like one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#m2)
3. "Talk posh" means to speak in a very proper, upper-class accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#m3)

### In the lessons

Very common in British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand speech, sometimes as teasing. It tells the reader about money, class and how people seem. In lessons about kindness, children learn not to judge people by whether they seem posh or not. Phrases: «a posh restaurant», «talk posh», «posh school», «posh nosh» (fancy food), «Posh Spice».

### Examples

- We went to a posh restaurant for Grandma's birthday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x1)
- The new kid talks a bit posh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x2)
- That's a posh car! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x3)
- They live in a posh part of town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x4)
- Mum put on her posh voice on the phone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x5)
- We had sandwiches, nothing posh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x6)
- Don't tease him for being posh; it isn't his fault. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/#x7)

### Note

Informal; mainly British. Comparatives: posher, poshest. Myth: the story that «posh» comes from "port out, starboard home" on ships is almost certainly not true; nobody knows the real origin. It can sound mocking, so use it kindly.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «posh» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/posh/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«posh» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/posh.html) on Mova free.