Posh vs Swank - What's the difference?
posh | swank |
Associated with the upper classes.
Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).
Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that they are better than everyone else. usually offensive. (especially in Scotland and Northern England)
* 1889: "The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him." — Rudyard Kipling,
(dated) Fashionably elegant.
A fashionably elegant person.
Ostentation.
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To swagger, to show off.
As adjectives the difference between posh and swank
is that posh is associated with the upper classes while swank is fashionably elegant.As an interjection posh
is An exclamation expressing derision.As a noun swank is
a fashionably elegant person.As a verb swank is
to swagger, to show off.posh
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- She talks with a posh accent.
- After the performance they went out to a very posh restaurant.
- 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, 1919Interjection
Posh!The Man Who Was
References
Anagrams
* * * * * English terms with unknown etymologies ----swank
English
Adjective
(er)- I went to a swank party last night.
Noun
(en noun)- He's such a swank .
- The parvenu was full of swank .
- Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.
Verb
(en verb)- Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.