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Posh vs Posho - What's the difference?

posh | posho |

As a proper noun posh

is (soccer) , a football club from peterborough, england.

As an adjective posho is

(colloquial) posh.

As a noun posho is

a posh person or posho can be (east africa) a food product made of cornmeal.

posh

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Associated with the upper classes.
    • She talks with a posh accent.
  • Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).
    • After the performance they went out to a very posh restaurant.
  • Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that they are better than everyone else. usually offensive. (especially in Scotland and Northern England)
    • We have a right posh git moving in next door

    Quotations

    * 1919: "Well, it ain't one of the classic events. It were run over there." Docker jerked a thumb vaguely in the direction of France. "At a 'Concours Hippique,' which is posh for 'Race Meeting.' — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919

    Interjection

    Posh!
  • * 1889: "The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him." — Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Was

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    posho

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) posh

    • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A posh person.

    • Etymology 2

    , itself from (etyl) portion. (wikipedia posho)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (East Africa) A food product made of cornmeal.
    • Synonyms
    * sembe * sima * ugali

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