Posh……..a compliment or an insult?

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

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.

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.

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

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 !

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.

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.

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.

Boz

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

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

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".

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].

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My parent would never have anything to do with custard
As having seen advertising posters as child
assumed it was made from something extracted from a bird.

welbeck

How can trifle come out of a packet.
Wouldn't all the layers collapse?
I wonder what they came in before plastic containers were easily available.
I have a penchant for a raspberry trifle. Aldi is even better than Lidl. I only eat one individual one at a time. Not those big family sized ones.
Who mentioned trifle . . .

I mentioned trifle, sorry.

Bird’s Trifle Kit is readily available in main supermarkets.

Yes I use it sometimes, I could probably think of a synonym, but everyone knows what I mean & I don't use it as derogatory or admiring, just as another adjective.

Indigo8

NonGrannyMoll

Just like "working class", "titled", "disabled" or a multitude of other generalisations, it's just another catch-all word the use of which, because it means different things to different people, is almost completely pointless. But we all use these words, all the time (reasons on a postcard, please - no, don't). Finding one definition is impossible - it boils down to "how long is a piece of string?" Just go with the flow of the subject in hand, bearing in mind who's saying it and why.

I laboured under the delusion that I was lower middle class for years and then the "definitive" BBC quiz came along and I found out I was "Traditional Working Class". I do take your point though.

Same. Working class.

Not a scrap of posh to be found.

There isn’t anything wrong with being working class.

Most of us of any class try to be the best we can, work, look after family and get by. I think