posh

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posh1 /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/ adjectiveadj informal

1 EXPENSIVEa posh restaurant, hotel, car etc is expensive and looks as if it is used or owned by rich people 〔餐馆、酒店、汽车等〕高档的，豪华的

a posh private school

昂贵的私立学校

2 British EnglishBrECLASS IN SOCIETY upper class 上流社会的

Her parents are terribly posh.

她父母是十足的上流社会做派。

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posh• Some were like herself, some were from the suburbs and some sounded quite posh.• My house wasn't posh, but it was clean and it was mine.• a posh five-star hotel• She went to a posh girls' school in Switzerland.• She goes to a posh girls' school near Brighton.• I take the couch, an obligatory furnishing in hacker dens, even posh hacker dens like these at Xerox.• When I'm famous I'm going to stay in a posh hotel and drink champagne all day.• They split when he was in some really posh place, up the West End.• It's been routed from a solid block of not very posh plywood.• Will your posh university friends be coming tonight?

posh2 adverbadv British EnglishBrE informal

talk posh informal to talk in an upper-class way 用上流社会腔调说话

Posh /pɒʃ $ pɑːʃ/

an informal name for the British pop singer Victoria Beckham, used especially in newspapers and magazines 辣妹〔英国流行乐歌手维多利亚·贝克汉姆的别称，尤用于报纸杂志〕 → Becks

Origin posh

(1900-2000) Perhaps from posh “money, showy man” ((19-20 centuries))

posh1 adjectiveadjposh2 adverbadvPosh

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