POSHとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /pɑʃ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɒʃ/, IPA: /pəʊʃ/ (humorous or upper-class)
• 韻: -ɒʃ

形容詞

posh (comparative posher or more posh, superlative poshest or most posh)

1. Associated with the upper classes.

   Synonym: upper-crust

   She talks with a posh accent.

   • 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor:

     In antenatal clinic, an extremely posh patient attends for a routine appointment. All is well with her extremely posh fetus. Her extremely posh eight-year-old asks her a question about the economy (!), and before she answers, she asks her extremely posh five-year-old, ‘Do you know what the economy is, darling?’
     ’Yes, Mummy. It’s the part of the plane that’s terrible.’

2. Stylish; elegant; exclusive; luxurious; expensive.

   Synonym: high-end

   Near-synonym: plush

   After the performance, they went out to a very posh restaurant.

   • 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:

     “Miss Shaw’s got a new frock,” said Harriet.
     ”So she has! How posh of her! […]”

   • 2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN‎:

     Jan Petter Vala is serving part of a 10-year murder sentence on a posh island in southern Norway.

3. (usually offensive, especially in Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.

   Synonym: stuck-up

   We have a right posh git moving in next door.

派生語

間投詞

posh

1. An exclamation expressing derision.
   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Was:

     The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him.

派生語

• pish posh

名詞

posh (countable and uncountable, plural poshes)

1. (countable, UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny or other coin of little value.
2. (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Money.

動詞

posh (third-person singular simple present poshes, present participle poshing, simple past and past participle poshed)

1. (normally in the phrasal verb posh up) To make posh or posher (more posh).

   Synonym: poshen

参照

• “posh”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• (halfpenny; money): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

語源 2

Compare pash (“smash, bash; of rain: fall heavily”).

名詞

posh (countable and uncountable, plural poshes)

1. (chiefly dialectal) A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water.
   • 1897 March 6, Leamington Courier, quoted in the EDD:

     Did yer see what a posh the water came down the bruck ater the thaw, and no wonder the snow was a fut deep.

   • 1942, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire:

     There has been quite a posh of rain.

   • 2021 July 28, Diana Elmore, Footprints in Time: Memoirs of Previous Lifetimes, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:

     I could hear the posh of water issuing from the mouth of a lion fountain that was set in a nearby niche. He was on his knees, kissing my feet and legs until I was in a state of churning lust.

2. (uncountable) Fragments produced by an impact.
3. (uncountable) Slush.

アナグラム

• Hosp., OHPs, PHOs, Soph, hops, hosp, phos, shop, soph