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?

[2sp_]

No Eccles, mice don't count. :-)

If it was a chinchilla, I would have said yes.

[Ken4155]

EcclesCake; not really, it had already been done - Die Fledermaus:-)

[ummmm]

Middle names are normal for us.

With Irish families often being very large and regularly named after their uncles and aunts you end up with a massive family all with the same names so middle names are used.

[DTCwordfan]

my definition, the original meaning of the acronym, 'port out, starboard home' that being the side of the ship for 1st class going out to India and back....very classy.

[sandyRoe]

Cups with saucers and sandwiches without crusts.

[cupid04]

and little finger in the air when drinking from cup.....

[sandyRoe]

It's Ladies Day at Aintree races today. I'm sure we'd see loads of posh Liverpudlians if we switched on the telly.

[Graham-W]

There was a lady who lived near us who considered herself Posh. She had married into money. Everyone who knew the family she was from used to comment,"Fur coat, no knickers", meaning she was all show.

[Ric.ror]

and little finger in the air when drinking from cup.

That is most certainly not posh - neither is milk in first

[Lie-in King]

Having kedgeree for breakfast, oysters for lunch - followed by some "how's your father" - peacock sandwiches for tea & roast swan for dinner. A late supper is optional, dependent upon how much wine has been consumed.

Ah, those were the days...

[viv38]

Me and my brother were considered posh by our friends Mum because we wore dressing gowns over our jammies ! (When we were kids I hasten to add !).

[Sqad]

POSH......."Port out, starboard home" applied to the Southampton to South Africa run.....the first class cabins which had balconies always had the morning and noon sun both ways and they were in the shade of the hot afternoon sun, both ways.

[Lie-in King]

Hi Sqad - this is apocryphal - scroll to "Origin" on this link -

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/posh

[Sqad]

Lie-In-King........OK.

Where has romance gone?......;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Factor, everyone I grew up and went to school with including myself had 2 middle names, we weren't posh, we were/are RC.

Posh for me as a child were friends who had their own bedroom and went on foreign holidays.

[heathfield]

Those who use butter knives and marmalade spoons.

[Lie-in King]

Sqad - I didn't mean my post to read as dismissive of yours, apologies.

Romance has taken up residence with me :-))

[Mamyalynne]

Now, I use butter knives - so am dithering (nothing new there).

The strangest thing I ever saw was someone eat a banana with a knife and fork - I was mesmerised.

[Maydup]

Posh for us were people who owned their own homes, a telephone line as apposed to either nothing or access to a party line! and people who went on any kind of holiday that didn't involve tents and ground sheets.

[Vicasso]

I remember Peter Ustinov being interviewed by Michael Parkinson.
He said the school he attended was so posh that, during the annual Sports Day, there was a chauffeurs race :-)