Poshest vs Posest - What's the difference?
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(posh)
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,
(archaic) (pose)
(obsolete) common cold, head cold; catarrh
* 1586 , W. Harrison
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
* 2010 , Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat , Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:
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Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) To interrogate; to question.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
* Barrow
Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
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Affectation.
(obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:
to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
To perplex or confuse (someone).
As an adjective poshest
is (posh).As a verb posest is
(archaic) (pose).poshest
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Alternative forms
* most poshAdjective
(head)posh
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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
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English
Verb
(head)pose
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) pose, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Now have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) posen, from (etyl) ; influenced by (etyl) ponere.Verb
(pos)- To pose a model for a picture.
- Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.
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Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
- He posed before her as a hero.
- She posed him and sifted him.
- A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* posableEtymology 3
From (etyl) posen, a combination of aphetic forms of (etyl) aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose.Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(pos)- And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.