What is posh?

Posh is not a word in common use anymore because as we've all got wealthier it has lost its real meaning of 'them and us'

I have a friend who went to Eton. He's very well off but it's totally understated....he doesn't have to flash it because having money is just the way it is.

I know other people who think they're posh. My neighbour is one of these. Like me she lives in a two up two down with a bathroom extension but she insists her house is a cottage. She tries to pronounce her aitches but puts them in the wrong places sometimes. She thinks she's better than other people who rent all their lives. Not me because she thinks I had to leave a bought house when I escaped from ex. She'd die if she realised I came from one of the roughest estates in Hull

Well, according to the link, I'm posh because I use Euthymol toothpaste....love the taste of it!

When I was little, posh was an infrequent visit from a great aunt with her new man. No one had cars then in our locality, but she would pull up outside our house in a large black limo, dressed in a fur coat, jewellery and reeking of expensive perfume, seemingly looking down her nose at all of us. It made me never want to be posh, because no one liked her and we dreaded her visits.

Does anyone remember U and Non U as system for determining what was and wasn't acceptable I cant think of an example at the moment - it will come to me sometime!!

It's all relative - a bit like that sixties "I look up to him, but down at him" sketch. I find it very amusingly obvious at weddings that one side of the family is posher than the other. At one of our daughter's wedding we were the posh ones but at the other the groom's family were definitely a big cut above!!

I think people used to find us posh because we called our parents "Mummy" and "Daddy". We somehow never got out of the habit. It may have been my father trying to hang on to the little bit of Irish in him, though.

To me, posh (horrible word) simply means someone with aristocratic heritage. Certainly nothing to do with money.

My mother had a posh telephone voice. She sounded like Maggie Thatcher!

I volunteer with someone who insisted on calling me 'Fleur' and explained that she knew I had a posh name but 'Fleur' was the only one she could remember!

Is it posh to have posh friends?

Not having your sauce bottles, teapot and bottle of milk on the table at teatime (Corrie-style)...and I didn't like it!

I worked in a university and a new member of staff who admitted to doing all her shopping in Waitrose was deemed 'posh' by our secretary

Never met any when we were small,they were way,way, above us peasants.Never really met any nowadays.Met a few who think they are mind.

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.

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

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.

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".

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

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

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"

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

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!!

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

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