posh
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++posh1 /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 〔餐馆、酒店、汽车等〕高档的，豪华的 a posh private school 昂贵的私立学校2 British EnglishCLASS IN SOCIETY upper class 上流社会的 Her parents are terribly posh. 她父母是十足的上流社会做派。
Examples from the Corpus
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?posh2 adverb British English informal talk posh informal to talk in an upper-class way 用上流社会腔调说话Posh /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/ an informal name for the British pop singer Victoria Beckham, used especially in newspapers and magazines 辣妹〔英国流行乐歌手维多利亚·贝克汉姆的别称，尤用于报纸杂志〕 → BecksOrigin posh (1900-2000) Perhaps from posh “money, showy man” ((19-20 centuries))posh1 adjectiveposh2 adverbPosh Chinese
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posh
posh1 /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/ 
adjective informal
a posh private school
2. British English upper class:
Her parents are terribly posh.
posh2 adverb British English informal
talk posh to talk in an upper-class way
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adjective informal Date: 1900-2000
Origin: Perhaps from posh 'money, showy man' (19-20 centuries)
1. a posh restaurant, hotel, car etc is expensive and looks as if it is used or owned by rich people:Origin: Perhaps from posh 'money, showy man' (19-20 centuries)
2. British English upper class:
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adverb British English informaltalk posh to talk in an upper-class way
Posh
Posh /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/
an informal name for the British pop singer Victoria Beckham, used especially in newspapers and magazines ⇨ Becks
Posh /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/
an informal name for the British pop singer Victoria Beckham, used especially in newspapers and magazines ⇨ Becks
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