poshy

poshy (comparative poshier, superlative poshiest)

1. (agriculture, archaic) Of land: sticky, clayey, binding.
   • 1849, British Farmer's Magazine, number 16, page 461:

     Plant shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen; but avoid a poshy state of the land, if it be binding or clayey.

   • 1877, Southern Cultivator, volume 35, page 306:

     I prefer a deep, rich loam, neither clay nor sand, but what the plough boys call "poshy land," sticks to the plough […]

From posh +‎ -y.

poshy (comparative poshier, superlative poshiest)

1. (colloquial) Posh.
   • 1954 March 17, Variety, volume 194, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Variety, →ISSN, →OCLC:
     • Trau, “The Morning Show”, Tele Reviews, page 27, column 5:

       Casting the top news developments, here and there supported by films, is Charles Collingwood, another down-to-earther despite the poshy aura about his background (Rhodes scholar, etc.) and the meticulous grooming.

     • Abel, “Shirl Conway”, New Acts, page 55, column 5:

       Shirl Conway has been around in the poshier bistros and, after a European sabbatical, is back in the U.S., at the Maisonette of the plush St. Regis Hotel.

   • 1999, Peter Read, quoting Aileen Wedge, “‘I’d never put anybody in jail’”, in A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2020, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The oral evidence):

     North Ryde was open, real poshy people used to be there.

   • 2000, James Hawes, “Among the Dead, Live”, in Dead Long Enough, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 9:

     Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily clever PostModern collection of artefacts behind him: […]

   • 2003, Bryony Lavery, “Discontented Winter: House Remix”, in Shell Connections 2004: New Plays for Young People, London: Faber and Faber, published 2004, →ISBN, section 19 (Make Yourselves Ready in Your Cabins), page 257:

     Well, look how nothing changes in the world / who turns it? Royal runt and poshy girl!

   • 2008, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper, Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, →ISBN, pages 196 (The Home Front) and 227 (Home at Last):

     By six o’clock the stores had closed, and at the appointed hour the little group of friends gathered for dinner at Detroit’s poshiest restaurant—The London Chop House. […] Not surprisingly, some of Al’s fellow officers were incensed when they were given tourist class accommodations while the German POW officers were given poshy First Class accommodations.

   • 2012 December 4, Isabella Monroe, “Lullaby”, in The Fresher: You’re Every Minute Closer to the Truth…, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 41:

     The idea of spending a lot of time with the sexy, poshy girl Stormy was cool, but a trip to Rome was better, a lot better.

   • 2013 May 8, Movieclips, Fast & Furious 6 Interview […]‎^[1], spoken by Gal Gadot, via YouTube; quoted in Vanessa Oswald, “Speeding Toward Stardom”, in Gal Gadot: A New Kind of Action Hero (People in the News), New York, N.Y.: Lucent Press, 2020, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

     I mean it’s so nice and cool … not to be a poshy girl, but to be one of the guys.

   • 2020, Bonita C[oleman] Stewart, Jacqueline Adams, “Dreaming of Allies”, in A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, Beacon, N.Y.: Wordeee, →ISBN:

     He was a graduate of an excellent local college and its law school but those degrees weren’t enough to make him feel equal to the Harvard guys. He conceded that he and his brothers were able to “pass,” because their aunt worked at a poshy men’s store and therefore, they had the proper wardrobe.