• smeg@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Those are all synonyms for there secondary meaning of posh as “fancy”, I’d say the primary meaning is to describe a person of “higher social class”, so a combination of rich, pretentious, not in touch with normal people, etc.

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        21 hours ago

        I think that’s a difference across the pond, you can be posh without being rich, and you can definitely be rich without being posh!

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          20 hours ago

          The posh old money are largely skint, and have to sell their crumbling homes to the National Trust or open them to visitors to pay the bills.