From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishposhposh1 /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/ ●○○ adjective informal 1 EXPENSIVEa posh restaurant, hotel, car etc is expensive and looks as if it is used or owned by rich people a posh private school2 British EnglishCLASS IN SOCIETY upper class Her parents are terribly posh.
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posh• Some were like herself, some were from the suburbs and some sounded quite posh.• My house wasn't posh, but it was clean and it was mine.• a posh five-star hotel• She went to a posh girls' school in Switzerland.• She goes to a posh girls' school near Brighton.• I take the couch, an obligatory furnishing in hacker dens, even posh hacker dens like these at Xerox.• When I'm famous I'm going to stay in a posh hotel and drink champagne all day.• They split when he was in some really posh place, up the West End.• It's been routed from a solid block of not very posh plywood.• Will your posh university friends be coming tonight?poshposh2 adverb British English informal → talk poshPoshPosh /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/ an informal name for the British pop singer Victoria Beckham, used especially in newspapers and magazines → BecksOrigin posh (1900-2000) Perhaps from posh “money, showy man” ((19-20 centuries)) 