Posh is an adjective, with a dictionary meaning of "smart or fashionable^[1]", "elegant, stylishly luxurious^[2]", "spruced up, smart or polished^[3]". In the British Isles it often refers to people who speak according to received pronunciation, or with a "public school" accent. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Posh refers to more than one subject: Posh is the most common meaning of the term, which is used to describe over-the-top luxuries affected by those with social pretensions. ... Look up Posh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter, fashion designer and television personality. ... In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjectives subject), giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to. ... For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. ... A Lincoln Town Car luxury sedan is an example of a luxury good. ... This article describes the archipelago in north-Western Europe. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

Common usage

In American English, "posh" is usually used to describe luxury objects; the interior of a Rolls-Royce, for example, might be called posh. In British English, the same meaning for objects and styles holds, but people can also be posh (although not "a posh" as in the original usage), by which it is meant that they display both wealth and "upper class" tastes. Sometimes, there is some implication of ostentation or snobbery in such a description, and it is usually used in a derogatory fashion. For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... Rolls-Royce car may refer to vehicles produced by: Rolls-Royce Limited (1906-1973) Rolls-Royce Motors (1973-2003), which was owned by Vickers between 1980 and 1998, and after that by Volkswagen. ... British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world. ...

Etymology

The origin of the word is obscure. The first recorded use of the word was in the British satirical magazine Punch on 25 September 1918, although an earlier possible reference uses the word push ^[4]. The OED records a definition of the word as a noun from 1890, meaning "a dandy". Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of... Sporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a girdle helped one achieve this silhouette. ...

A popular but false etymology states the expression originated from the phrase "Port Out, Starboard Home", which, before air-conditioning, were allegedly the most desirable cabin locations on ships travelling to and from British colonies in the Far East because they were shaded from the sun in both directions. However, extensive searching of shipping company records and tickets from that period has failed to reveal any evidence for explicit "Port Outbound, Starboard Home" reservations. ^[1][2][4] A false etymology is an assumed or postulated etymology which is incorrect from the perspective of modern scholarly work in historical linguistics. ... Port is the nautical term (used on boats and ships) that refers to the left side of a ship, as perceived by a person facing towards the bow (the front of the vessel). ... A view of the Starboard side of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ross Starboard is the nautical term that refers to the right side of a vessel as perceived by a person on board the ship and facing the bow (front). ... Location of the British Overseas Territories The British Overseas Territories are fourteen[1] territories which the United Kingdom considers to be under its sovereignty, but not as part of the United Kingdom itself. ...

This false etymology is illustrated by a song in the musical version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The song "P.O.S.H." includes the lyrics: Chitty the Musical is a stage musical based on the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming and the 1968 film produced by Cubby Broccoli. ...

"Whenever I'm bored I travel abroad but ever so properly

Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, posh."

English Football Club

Posh is also the nickname of the Peterborough United Football Club. It was reportedly^{[attribution needed]} first used in the 1920s when the then manager said he was getting some posh players to create a posh team for the city. Another theory^{[citation needed]} is that the pub next door to the stadium is called the "Port Out Starboard Home", and hence this is where the name originated. Peterborough United F.C. are an English football team currently playing in Football League One. ...

Plain Old Semantic HTML

Web developers use the acronym "posh" to refer to "Plain Old Semantic HTML". The microformats community has been using the term POSH to further evangelize the concept of Semantic HTML. Look up Posh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ...

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