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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child [syn: classy, posh, swish]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1918 1. elegant, fashionable <a posh restaurant> 2. British typical of or intended for the upper classes ; highfalutin <posh accents> • poshly adverb • poshness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. colloq. --adj. 1 smart; stylish. 2 of or associated with the upper classes (spoke with a posh accent). --adv. in a stylish or upper-class way (talk posh; act posh). Phrases and idioms: posh up smarten up. Derivatives: poshly adv. poshness n. Etymology: 20th c.: perh. f. sl. posh a dandy: port out starboard home (referring to the more comfortable accommodation on ships to and from the East) is a later association and not the true origin

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(posher, poshest) 1. If you describe something as posh, you mean that it is smart, fashionable, and expensive. (INFORMAL) Celebrating a promotion, I took her to a posh hotel for a cocktail. ...a posh car. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. If you describe a person as posh, you mean that they belong to or behave as if they belong to the upper classes. (INFORMAL) I wouldn't have thought she had such posh friends... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

Babylonian, Corinthian, a la mode, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, braw, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, deluxe, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elaborate, elegant, exclusive, exquisite, extravagant, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, impressive, jaunty, lavish, luxurious, luxury, magnificent, majestic, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, noble, opulent, palatial, plush, princely, proud, recherche, regal, rich, ritzy, royal, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, spruce, stately, style-conscious, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tony, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed