What Is Your Definition Of Posh?

[EcclesCake]

When I was growing up I thought our neighbour was posh because they drank coffee, ate brown bread and shopped at M&S!

What is, or was, your definition?

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds fair enough.

[aelmpvw]

when i was a kid having a telly was posh

[bravejordy]

When I was growing up in the late 1950s/early 1960s, anyone who had a car or a telephone was considered posh.

[Retrochic]

Good Question. I thinks its how you talk and present yourself rather than material things you may have. I have a 'Home Counties' accent and everyone thinks I'm really posh, which couldn't be further from the truth. A friend I went to school with has a Yorkshire accent but her family own a huge Country Estate just outside of Harrogate -no one ever called her posh lol!

[Ken4155]

Getting out of the bath for a p*ss:-)

[cupid04]

My best friend had a colour telly before we did. I went round her house to watch the Apollo moon landing.

[jno]

I think retrochic is right. There was nothing posh about Posh Spice - mother was a hairdresser, I think - she just acted less laddishly than some of the others.

[jomifl]

Posh people don't use the word 'posh' so that's me pigeon holed :o)

[maggiebee]

POSH was thought to mean Port out, Starboard home when on a cruise. Heard recently on TV that this was just a myth. I'm posh because I never fart in public!

[ummmm]

Much to do with accent and behaviour.

My accountant (well he's not mine as such, I don't own him) has a very posh accent. When I ran our business and struggled to get companies to pay I'd get him to ring them and he had much more success than me although we were saying the same words.

[grasscarp]

When I was a child I was standing at a bus stop when I saw some children asking their father for money. He said - "You cant have any money. We are saving up to buy a Rover 90". I have never forgotten that. I thought they were very posh!

[Prudie]

I agree with Ummmm, I'm not posh particularly but people think I am because of my speaking voice. As soon as I speak to strangers, especially in official situations, they respond differently because of my voice I'm sure of it.

[cupotee2]

A neighbour I thought of as posh was in the local shop in front of me [many moons ago] in her posh voice she asked for "one egg please I want to stuff a marrow"......

After that she went down in my estimation of posh.

[EcclesCake]

Stuffed marrow is the work of the Devil!

[2sp_]

Indicators of poshness -

Using a soup spoon (for soup, not just in general)
Having and using (on a regular basis) cloth napkins
Calling your tea "dinner"
Enjoying opera
Not watching any soap, reality show or You've Been Framed
Listening to Radio 2
Naming a pet (or child for that matter) after any character from Shakespeare (with the exception of Duncan)
Being on first name terms with your Doctor, Solicitor, Accountant, local Sheriff or Laird

In my world anyway...

[jomifl]

2sp, pretty close..

[EcclesCake]

I named a mouse after an opera.......am I posh?

[Ken4155]

When i was a lad, there was a family who lived near us and we thought they must be posh because he was the only kid on the street who did not have green sleeves.

[factor-fiction]

Anyone with a middle name. It was unheard of where I was brought up. I was always curious as to why cricketers usually had 2 or 3 middle names