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posish en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pəˈzɪʃ/ (UK)
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Etymology

Abbreviation of position.

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, qualifier:often military slang or sexual slang) Clipping of position.
   alt of position
   • My favorite posish is doggystyle.
   • ETHAN: Hun! Of course I'm taking his side. You had to know that would be my [position] posish. 2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 56:
   • "Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’."
   • The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.
   • He put on the remaining pair of gloves, and took a pugilistic "posish" that alarmed me.
   • At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.
   • And feeling that it would do no harm to get his views on the Kipper situation, I unfolded the tale. “So you see the posish,” I concluded. 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

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