Definition of "posh" []

• Smart and fashionable. See Synonyms at fashionable. (adjective)

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• "He likes the idea of Waitrose being viewed as "luxury" and "aspirational", but finds the label "posh" frustrating."
• "Meanwhile, Angela Brockway and other members of the reading group are struggling to carry on without their friend: There were about 14 of us who all used to sit round her big Victorian table in her conservatory with mugs of tea and coffee and piles of what we called 'posh' biscuits."
• "I always wondered, in a society where being "posh" is just about the worst sin out, if David Cameron's background - and even more the fact that he looks like a public school boy - would count against him."