posh
A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or waterA sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water.
Recorded UK: Celestianpower, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
5 senses(countable, dialectal, uncountable)A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain or water.
(uncountable)Fragments produced by an impact.
(uncountable)Slush.
(UK, countable, obsolete, slang)A halfpenny or other coin of little value.
(UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Money.
Examples
29 sentencesTom is quite posh.
Том — аристократ. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
Tom's house is quite posh.
У Тома вишуканий і розкішний будинок. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
She went to a posh school.
James lives in a posh mansion.
This is a posh part of town.
deDies ist ein Nobelviertel. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
Compare pash (“smash, bash; of rain: fall heavily”).Compare pash (“smash, bash; of rain: fall heavily”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: poshesLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.