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poshdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From posh + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition or world of the upper class; refinement; elegance
    • The 'Lanky' has gone missing from the voice, is replaced by one of her awful attempts at 'poshdom'. 1994, Ruth Hamilton, The September Starlings, page 577:
    • […] they went through her mind like fast thunderstorms, and Jonathan Fraiser as the cause and manipulator, high priest of the ... biographer and deflator of "poshdom and poverty alike," the same mutants of an alienated culture […] 1982, Outerbridge - Issues 10-11, page 16:

Relateds

poshness