What is posh?

Extra "posh" if you have supper after your dinner.

My mother knew her neighbours were posh (as a child) because they had fruit when no-one was ill

Not forgetting Afternoon tea

As a child I think it would be a lady in a fur coat .

Now I wouldn't use 'posh' to describe a person.
A hotel or restauran maybe.

Restaurant even!

Cherrytree it's not a word I'd use for a person either.

I love Pigglywiggly's definition of posh

We must have been posh because my mother used to buy fruit every week and arrange it carefully in the fruit bowl.

We'd then ignore until it rotted

My Great Aunt always had fruit arranged in cut glass bowl
It was plastic!

Am I the only person who almost cringes at the word "posh"?

No I agree pheonix
Up there with Gusset

Perhaps we should ask Galen as she likes going on cruises - if it is really true about 'port out, starboard home'.

My mother had a 'posh' friend who used to pass down some of her daughter's expensive party frocks to me when I was a little girl.
I didn't mind 2nd hand so probably wasn't posh.

In case you really want to know

We may be a bit posh, but only a bit!!

I'm very posh. In fact I think I'll change my name to LadyJane10

Oh you've beaten me to it jane10.
I'm definitely proud to be posh

Having a petticoat (underskirt) was super posh - I longed to have this most frivolous of garments when I was a child. Now I am posh too because I have several!!

My mum is posh - she's called 'Duchess'!

Hard to define but I would imagine an emphasis on understatement and not being too showy. A bit of a misnomer therefore when Victoria Beckham went for that label for her alter ego perhaps she had her tongue firmly in her cheek as with her re emergence under the guise of "fashion designer"

As children anyone who sounded thir aitches......and their th.....properly

Talked posh......we used to fink 'er next door was proper posh...she 'ad a barfroom an' di'ntwash'erfeetinthesink as well

When I was young I thought you were posh if you had a bathroom. We didn't have one until I was 18!

This has got me thinking. I certainly see "posh" as a word to describe the Audrey fforbes-Hamiltons of this world but it all relative isn't it?
My primary school in Scotland was next to what we called a "scheme" (a council estate) and there were only a handful of us in my class who did not live on it. So that was grounds for accusations of "posh" Thinking back I remember most of the pupils were grey or black socks, often like Just William, at half mast. So to appear in white ankle socks was "posh". I was derided as "posh" too because we had a phone (necessary for my father's work) No car, no TV like some and an "only just indoor" lavatory.
The word was always used in a pejorative sense just as it is today, only Hyacinth would aspire to "poshness".

Lona we had a bathroom but could not afford the hot water for a bath!

I think that I am posh looking at the state of my car inside and out.

I think posh and classy are mixed for me. Usually someone with a Home Counties accent, tweeds and Barbour wellies. Huntin, shootin and fishin.
I heard somewhere that the port out starboard home origin was not correct but can't remember what was correct

I have come to realise in the last year or two, that there are some people who are proper posh, and some that merely pretend and aspire to be.

The link made me realise/understand why my proper posh friend does some of the things she does. Though whether that is in her so to speak, or whether she also copies some of the things I am not sure.

She hasnt got monogrammed slippers though.