What makes one Posh?

Answer 1

Two parts water and one part loads-of-money.


To make two Posh's just double the ingredients.

Answer 2

Rich and can afford the best luxuries. In olden days (when the term Posh is believed to have been born), you would have afforded a cabin facing the sun side on P&O ships sailing between England and India.

But in my book, I would classify a person as being Posh if:

They have manners,
They always comport themselves with style.

Someone who is not Posh but who tries to be Posh by buying expensive material items can really stick out. There must be a term for these kind of people but I cannot think of it at the moment.

Answer 3

posh is not about money or status it is about manners. You can be as poor as a church mouse and live in a cupboard but if you have good manners and make people, all people, whether royalty or the local tramp, feel special and treat them with grace, you're posh. If you bring out the best teapot and not think this is too good for old so-and-so, sit them in the best seat, listen to them without interrupting and giving your point without de-moralising or belittling or being rude to them, then you're posh.

You can live in a mansion with a butler but still 'ee as common as muck' if your manners are pretentious, demeaning, uncouth or condescending or downright rude. If you have a 'tradesman' entrance for the common folk and a grand door for the 'posh lot', you're not posh you're a poser. A true posher will have one for all and they will mix easily within all social circles.

Answer 4

There is only one thing that one can do to officially be declared POSH. That is to take a stateroom on a cruise liner on a return journey from Europe to the USA and have that stateroom on the Port side on the way out and a Starboard stateroom on the way home.

Port
Out
Starboard
Home

hence POSH.

Answer 5

Truely, the answer is breeding. Its traditionally a term that refers to people of the upper middle and upper classes who are 'pure bred' i.e. whose genes aren't contamimated with those of a lower class parent.

The origin of the words posh is something different, it means Port Out Starboard Home and refers to those passengers who could afford the cabins with the best views on the cruise liners.

Answer 6

Ferrari

Answer 7

technically-
Posh is an adjective, with a dictionary meaning of "smart or fashionableDictionary.com", "elegant, stylishly luxuriousCompact Oxford English Dictionary", "spruced up, smart or polishedChambers English Dictionary, Ed 1990".
Quick Links: Common usage - Etymology - See also
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covers a lot of territory doesn't it?

And then there is another angle also:

Python Object Sharing, or POSH for short, is an extension module to Python that allows objects to be placed in shared memory. Objects in shared memory can be accessed transparently, and most types of objects, including instances of user-defined classes, can be shared. POSH allows concurrent processes to communicate simply by assigning objects to shared container objects. On multiprocessor architectures, multi-process applications using POSH can significantly outperform similar multi-threaded applications, since Python threads don't scale to take advantage of multiple processors. Even so, POSH lends itself to a programming model very similar to threads.

Documentation
POSH was originally the subject of Steffen Viken Valvåg's Master of Engineering thesis, which is available in PDF and Postscript formats. In addition, POSH was presented at PyCon DC 2003 and the paper we submitted is available in HTML and PDF formats. The PowerPoint slides used in the presentation are available here.

I'm THINKING THIS IS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT:

About POSH
Python Object Sharing, or POSH for short, is an extension module to Python that allows objects to be placed in shared memory. Objects in shared memory can be accessed transparently, and most types of objects, including instances of user-defined classes, can be shared. POSH allows concurrent processes to communicate simply by assigning objects to shared container objects. On multiprocessor architectures, multi-process applications using POSH can significantly outperform similar multi-threaded applications, since Python threads don't scale to take advantage of multiple processors. Even so, POSH lends itself to a programming model very similar to threads.


OOOPS REPEAT PROCESSOR FAILED PLEASE SHUT DOWN AND RETRY AGAIN:-)

Answer 8

There are several answers:

1) When your surname appears in the history books, under "Dynasties"! [Funnily enough, "Spice" and "Becks" aren't in ANY of them!]
2) When your relatives call you Ma'am and not one of them is American.
3) When your school has its own Cathedral and your Great, Great Uncle built it.
4) When your back garden isn't IN Wiltshire, it IS Wiltshire!
5) When your ride home in a Harrier jet costs more than your stately home!

Answer 9

I'd love to know as a lot of my friends think I'm posh! Speaking quite nicely e.g. not dropping t's and h's is the only reason I can think of. Mind you, most of them change their minds once they've seen me after a few drinks!

Answer 10

children at private school, plays golf, can ride a horse and more importantly, can TALK about horses for hours. Skiing holdays, sails frequently.

does NOT smoke cigarettes or wear "leisure wear" out of Primark.