AIBU unreasonable to hate the word posh?

Posh resto etc they are using it as shorthand for 'well regarded', but we old souls generally form our own opinions wouldn't you say.

I think it means upper class (rich) and entitled as well. So it is not a compliment in my mind. - eg Andy and Harry, not William and Kate.

interestingliterature.com/2021/01/posh-word-origins-etymology/

Lucca

chocolatepudding

Port out, starboard home. Something to do with sailing?

Indian raj days. If you had money you had a cabin on the port side to go there but starboard to come “home”.

what's interesting is that there is zero documented proof of this....you'd think it would appear on tickets or cabin labels but nothing has ever been found.

Interesting that there are 6 whole pages devoted to this subject. Maybe it's just an Old Person's thing? I don't think the young are interested at all.

Not a word I ever use...hate that is. Hate is a very strong word. As far as posh goes....I think it is rather an old fashioned word. Not used as much as it was...so many words to use instead of it I think.

No love it, and I enjoy being posh

Where I grew up, outside Glasgow. describing someone or something as "posh" was most assuredly not a compliment.

It usually meant the same as "Lah-di-dah" in other words that someone was putting on airs and trying to make you feel inferior.

So this is the sense I still associate with the word irrespective of dictionary definitions. If anyone called me, or something I had just bought posh, I would be offended.

"Fantouche" is more acceptable, but even it has overtones of something being a bit much.

Joseanne
So maybe it's posh people who don't mind using the word "posh"!

Oh no my dear,

I ain’t posh.

Aveline

Despite all the negative comments here - I'm still posh

So maybe it's posh people who don't mind using the word "posh"!

JaneJudge

I like going to a posh hotel

We were isolated in a posh hotel when we had Covid. Very nice it was too and well beyond our usual means both in size, location and facilities and the 200€ per day cost of meals. Thank goodness we didn’t have to pay!

Despite all the negative comments here - I'm still posh

I like going to a posh hotel

@M0nica I don’t think you can take it upon yourself to dictate what Kitty or anybody means when they use a word.
You think pejorative, Kitty and I and others think tongue-in-cheek or jokey.
You just have to accept that.
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less
The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

But if you want or need a dictionary definition…-
posh
/pɒʃ/
adjective
elegant or stylishly luxurious.
"a posh hotel"
adverbINFORMAL•BRITISH
in a refined or upper-class way.
"he may talk posh, but there is nothing fancy about Basil"
nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
the quality of being elegant, stylish, or upper class.
"we finally bought a colour TV, which seemed the height of posh"
verbINFORMAL•BRITISH
smarten someone or something up.
“we will be getting all poshed up for the company summer ball"

When our choir puts in concerts, many of the ladies say they put on their ‘posh frocks’ or ‘posh tops’ or ‘posh trousers’.
I don’t think I’ll tell them they’re being
slightly, just so very slightly, derogatory.
If I did they’d probably tell me I was being
rude, not even just so very slightly rude.

I am not judging you kittylester, just how you use one word.

We are all judging people all the time whether we admit it,or are aware of it or not. But thoughts mean nothing, it is how you act that matters.

Got it. I’m sure you will love them both just the same, just as it should be.

You’ll have to give me more than that. Have skimmed the animal threads to no avail.

🐕 🐈

I shal go hunting for that other thread Joseanne, my curiosity is piqued.

You're very close to what I said on the other thread LauraNorder!

Not keen on the use of common when referring to people with different taste, habits or accent but would use to describe something that is most usual, such as the common or garden daisy.

I heard the word ‘swanky’ on tv today. Haven’t heard it for yonks. A couple of tv presenters drove in to an area by the river in Henley-on-Thames and she exclaimed ‘Ooo, swanky pants’.
I think that’s the same as ‘Oo posh,’
I don’t have a problem with either word and certainly wouldn’t use in a derogatory way.

M0nica

I will look out for when you next use the word on GN and judge. Certainly, the main use of it on GN is to put somethin, or someone down.

I've just used the "p" word on a thread and "common," to make a distinction between two different items of the same ilk!

How can a thread about 'just a word' - become so acrimonious and unpleasant???