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Posh vs Swank - What's the difference?

posh | swank |

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)
  • 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
  • References

    swank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dated) Fashionably elegant.
  • I went to a swank party last night.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fashionably elegant person.
  • He's such a swank .
  • Ostentation.
  • 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)
  • To swagger, to show off.
  • Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.

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