poshy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Plant shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen; but avoid a poshy state of the land, if it be binding or clayey."
- "I prefer a deep, rich loam, neither clay nor sand, but what the plough boys call "poshy land," sticks to the plough […]"
- "Trau, “The Morning Show”, Tele Reviews, page 27, column 5: Casting the top news developments, here and there supported by films, is Charles Collingwood, another down-to-earther despite the poshy aura about his background (Rhodes scholar, etc.) and the meticulous grooming. Abel, “Shirl Conway”, New Acts, page 55, column 5: Shirl Conway has been around in the poshier bistros and, after a European sabbatical, is back in the U.S., at the Maisonette of the plush St. Regis Hotel."
- "North Ryde was open, real poshy people used to be there."
- "Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily clever PostModern collection of artefacts behind him: […]"
- "Well, look how nothing changes in the world / who turns it? Royal runt and poshy girl!"
Etymology
From posh + -y.