What would you add?
What would you add?
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I didn't know these words were distinctly British.
What about knob? "He's such a knob", "Oi, knobhead!"
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Most of them don't surprise me, but posh? What do other English-speakers say to mean posh?
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chic classy deluxe elegant exclusive fashionable grand high-class luxury opulent ritzy swank swanky trendy-
Those are all synonyms for there secondary meaning of posh as "fancy", I'd say the primary meaning is to describe a person of "higher social class", so a combination of rich, pretentious, not in touch with normal people, etc.
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yeah we just call them "rich assholes"
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I think that's a difference across the pond, you can be posh without being rich, and you can definitely be rich without being posh!
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The posh old money are largely skint, and have to sell their crumbling homes to the National Trust or open them to visitors to pay the bills.
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A fair translation of "posh twat", but a bit cumbersome.
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The people I know refer to those people as “bougie” (boo-gee) as in bourgeoisie.
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