Posh has many meanings such as smart, elegant or fashionable and also upper-class or genteel but word history was began in September 25 1918 that found the first precedence a popular theory holds that it is branched from the primitives of “Port Out Starboard Home, “the cooler and thus more costly, side of ships which traveled between England and India in the mid-19th century.
In 19th and early 20th century the word posh was known for a “halfpenny”. Posh has other meaning “a dandy” is recorded in two dictionaries.
Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary .com/posh
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