Posh……..a compliment or an insult?

ETA I thought I’d quoted Ilovedogs (16:32) in my previous post, sorry.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I think the word is losing its usage now. Young ‘uns would just say ‘wealthy’ nowadays.

Yiu could be poor as a church mouse but still posh.

I always think of posh accents rather than wealth.

SueDonim

I’m pretty ordinary, same as my friends and family, I think. Though I guess we never know how others see us. 🤔

I want trifle now. With jelly.

Can't have trifle without jelly. And sherry.

I'm not posh.

Posh is a certain something, I think, which isn't quantified by money, or lack thereof.

There was a thread once, about women who have "it" - that ability to look like crap, and a million dollars all at once.

I upset a lady I know by telling her about a house I had taken a parcel to. I said 'It's one of the posh ones with a double garage" "But I've got a double garage!" she said, looking rather offended. Having heard about some of the holidays she goes on I think some people would consider her posh.

Posh is becoming a bit outdated. It's an odd word. Some might say that the Royal family are posh, or the aristocracy. But that's not a word the wealthy would ever use themselves.

The port out starboard home thing is I think a myth with no evidence to support it.
For me the word posh means stylish, upper class maybe but not necessarily wealthy.

Deedaa

I upset a lady I know by telling her about a house I had taken a parcel to. I said 'It's one of the posh ones with a double garage" "But I've got a double garage!" she said, looking rather offended. Having heard about some of the holidays she goes on I think some people would consider her posh.

Why would you say it’s posh because it has a double garage 🤷‍♀️
Genuine question.

I have a posh friend.
I wouldnt say that to her face.
Everyone thinks of her as posh, and knows that she is loaded[old money].

Louella12

Posh is becoming a bit outdated. It's an odd word. Some might say that the Royal family are posh, or the aristocracy. But that's not a word the wealthy would ever use themselves.

The Royal Family don't consider themselves to be posh.

As the late Queen so memorably said about Princess Michael of Kent: "She's a bit too grand for us".

Boz

I was taught never to use it as it designated you as common!

😁 as in ‘whoa! You is well posh innit?!’

MissAdventure

Posh is a certain something, I think, which isn't quantified by money, or lack thereof.

There was a thread once, about women who have "it" - that ability to look like crap, and a million dollars all at once.

True, if you live in a manor house and go around in a baggy old jumper with a few moth holes in and jeans and tatty trainers that’s fine but def not cool if you live on a council estate.

I’ve been called posh in a nasty way.
My family are from Lancashire, both mum and dad had a Lancashire accent. We, the children didn’t because we were brought up overseas amongst all sorts of accents so we just spoke as we spoke. If we had thought about it at all we would say that we didn’t have an accent at all.
When we went ‘home’ on leave we got the occasional sneery comment. I don’t think it happens so much now because people travel more.
I can’t remember if we were POSH on our trips back and forth but I can assure you that travelling by ship wasn’t quite the same as cruising is today.

I don't like that word either and in my experience it is never said in a sincere way. It's not a word I choose to use.

There’s not many posh accents here, we all sound more or less the same. I think Rees Mogg has a posh accent, I like to hear it as it brings back my childhood. I know many don’t like the man but I do, I think he is witty and quite charming. Never mind his politics, I’ll pass on that one !

Rees-Mogg’s accent is an affectation. Absolutely no-one uses such a silly drawl.

It's not word I would ever use. I'm as good as the next person. It implies you are beneath that. If it was grand, oppulent or pretty I would say that.

Oreo

MissAdventure

Posh is a certain something, I think, which isn't quantified by money, or lack thereof.

There was a thread once, about women who have "it" - that ability to look like crap, and a million dollars all at once.

True, if you live in a manor house and go around in a baggy old jumper with a few moth holes in and jeans and tatty trainers that’s fine but def not cool if you live on a council estate.

But context is all. The reverse phrase is 'fur coat and no knickers' used to describe someone who dresses 'up' from what they are perceived to be able afford/or their neighbours wear, clothes that in the manor house, no one would comment on.

nana8
i think Rees Mogg has a posh accent
I think Rees Mogg has a beautiful cultured, stylish, affluent accent.

I'm very posh. I know that because people sometimes say it. I always just agree. Noblesse oblige

Posh is a word that can be used in both contexts, complementary or derogatory, alongside many others also depending on the situation.

DH and I have always thought of ourselves a working class. We now have a comfortable lifestyle, through hard work. Having been brought up in a deprived family, I have always believed that education was a way out of poverty.
My parents wanted me out working and tried to discourage me from going to university, because people like us don't go to university.
However by self funding, while doing a number of part time jobs, I gained my degree.

During a conversation on Christmas Day, two of my children told me that their partners perceived us as posh, that my children's upbringing privileged, due to many foreign holidays and a lovely home.

I was stunned at this, for I have never seen myself as posh. I'm still the wee girl, who was humiliated dailly at my convent school, when I had to explain that I got free school meals, when the register was called..

As others have said, it means nothing.

Whitewavemark2

Rees-Mogg’s accent is an affectation. Absolutely no-one uses such a silly drawl.

I can't remember how his father spoke, was it in a similar way?

Jacob's maternal grandfather was a lorry driver. Not saying a lorry driver can't be posh, of course, before anyone picks me up on that.

I thought it was a Romany word for money? I don’t think my GC would use it, in fact it’s many years since I’ve heard it used

Allira

Whitewavemark2

Rees-Mogg’s accent is an affectation. Absolutely no-one uses such a silly drawl.

I can't remember how his father spoke, was it in a similar way?

Jacob's maternal grandfather was a lorry driver. Not saying a lorry driver can't be posh, of course, before anyone picks me up on that.

It’s a way of speaking you often heard in the older generation, if you went to a public school it was drilled into you Rees-Mogg is not an exception
One GF may have been a truck driver but the Rees-Moggs have been “old money” for many generations.