- Meaning: smart and fashionable
- In Hong Kong slang: 型,潮,yeah
- In decent Chinese: 入時,時尚
- Where we first met: The Scotsman - research finds that a famous Scottish comic character is turning posh in his language.
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words / terms / phrases / expressions that I pick up on the way ... often intrigue me ... more often reflect my ignorance of the language
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兩年前的文,我現在才給回應,嘻嘻! 這網誌停產了嗎?
我認識 posh 這個字,是因為 Beckham 老婆Victoria Posh. 我以為 Posh 是一個普通的姓氏,看了你這篇才知另有意思. 原來這是 Victoria 的藝名, 意思是她人 "很 posh."
不過,我查查字典, posh 好像有 belongs to the upper class 的意思. 你給的例子, posh language, 是 upper class language 還是 fashionable language 呢?
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