Definitions
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- adjective colloquial
posh - noun A
posh person. - noun East Africa A food product made of
cornmeal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The veg options were great: We ate fresh avocado, a local staple called posho (or maize flower), matooke (or banana), rice, and cassava.
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Fires were lit; the safari boys were squatting round the cooking-pots, stirring their "posho" and discussing the rising price of goats, with the consequent increase of the monetary value of wives, which is today their everlasting theme.
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She is using the loan to purchase restaurant items such as a variety of food like bananas, maize flour for 'posho', rice, cassava, sweet potatoes,
Kiva Loans 2010
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The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have.
Birthday Boy 2009
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The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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"Drive me to the hospital, it's important for me to make some beds and prove I have the common touch and am not a run-of-the mill posho!"
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I have a problem when it gets a bit too posho – if the "Wreck of the Week" costs £500,000, it makes me think, "Hmm … ", but I can laugh about it.
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Australian tradition whereby leading bowler "outs" English batsman he intends to install as personal whipping boy usually captain, star man, or chief posho.
The Ashes 2010 A-Z: baggy greens, doing a Harmy and lucky red hankies Barney Ronay 2010
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And finally, at the request of La Ross himself, those popular hitmakers of the day Roxy Music, where the reanimated corpse of Bryan Ferry will assume a louche posture on a chaise longue and deliver controversial bon mots over the sound of hunting bugles and his posho son picking off the riff-raff with a 12-bore shotgun.
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First of all, there were a few that voiced their disappointment in not receiving a posho or sitting allowance to attend the workshop.
A MONTH IN THE VILL ANTNY 2008
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