Comments on: Posh?

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:13:34 +0000

I say posh and I’m American. Then again, I also choose my words very carefully and consider each and every word to have a different connotation and definition.

By: michelle

michelle — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:46:27 +0000

woot for lowercase!

By: ysa

ysa — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:50:39 +0000

when i lived in the us, one of my jobs was working in a mental hospital for teens. it was fun,especially when i broke my leg and let a bunch of kids hopped up and thorazine and caffiene paint my cast… but anyway, they used the term “posh” quite often, usually with hoity toity hand gestures and noses in air and very faux snooty voices. it was primarily a derogatory thing. as in “of course we will never see britney or lindsey here; we’re just not special and posh and all that crap.” but in my never ending quest to be helpful, i looked in the roget’s dinosaurus, er thesaurus. for posh it said “chic, classy, deluxe, elegant, exclusive, grand, fashionable, high class, lah-di-dah, luxury, modish, opulent, rich, ritzy, smart, swank, swanky, swish, and trendy” i like lah-di-dah.

and i stubbornly refuse to use capitals here.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:05:52 +0000

Snooty

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:31:09 +0000

Posh doesn’t work for me, especially if it is a teenager speaking.

Preppy works. Ritzy is okay, but I’m not sure if a teen would say this. Off the hook is nice (and current) but only if the protag thinks the place is great in addition to expensive. But my favorite is j’s ‘fancy-ass.’ I think it would work well from a teen perspective, and it seems very USian.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:14:22 +0000

so. did you run out of room for all the capitals you’ve been stealing?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:01:50 +0000

I personally don’t see anything wrong with posh……

and I live in Texas. But what do I know. :/

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:21:01 +0000

As a US teen I believe posh isn’t very common generally it has the connotation to refer to the UK, cause of those spicy chicks.

I back up the suggestion “preppy”.

Love your blog btw.

By: emily

emily — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:07:22 +0000

preppy would work, as would private-school girl, rich kid, or upper-east-sidey.

also, nooooo! i love this haven of all-lowercase. it’s so pretty!

By: j

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:10:10 +0000

preppy- or maybe, full of J.A.P.s (Jewish American Princess)?

I go to an all- girls posh private school… I’ve never heard fancy-ass used, but I like it, and if in the Upper East side, those Upper East Side brats?

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:40:35 +0000

oh and the only time i’ve heard anyone say posh is if they are british.. or if someone is joking around and add a british accent

so i agree with scott.. maybe just people in the south don’t say it

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:37:36 +0000

never heard anyone at school use swanky.. but stuck up, preppy, biotchy, snobby.. haha theres a place called snob hill where rich kids but it’s really knob hill

(15 yearold usian here:] )
CAPITOL LETTERS! lol

By: emily-wa

emily-wa — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:33:29 +0000

posh is fine! don’t listen to scott!

By: ariel cooke

ariel cooke — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:17:21 +0000

p.s. i’m from nyc.

By: ariel cooke

ariel cooke — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:16:30 +0000

swanky–but i’m from the stone age too.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:13:40 +0000

i’m from california, and we’d either call it “rich”, “preppy”, “private”, or “those snobby bastards who think we’re from the ghetto”.

personally i’d go with “rich”.

By: haddy

haddy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:56:08 +0000

say* not saw
sorry

By: haddy

haddy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:43 +0000

im a “usian” teenager and i would
saw preppy loaded 9with cash) private school

By: elodie

elodie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:30:41 +0000

Posh actually works well because of the situation you’re using it in. (LOL I just noticed I have capital letters again! I was like whaaat?!) But otherwise… prep, yeah, I guess.

By: kim

kim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:14:22 +0000

prep, preppy

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:05:37 +0000

I’m with E. ‘Tony’. Only because I like the word…but does anyone under say, ooh, forty, use it?

Posh is a great word. “She’s a bit of posh”, for example. Like Jack’s almost-wife in 30 Rock. Sometimes pronounced with a hard ‘o’ for added silliness.

La-di-da always makes me think of Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. And that’s a whole other New York.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:44:52 +0000

I like several of the suggestions above: “preppy”, “snooty”, “stuck-up” (of people, not the school itself), “fancy” etc. But the one I would use is “rich”. “It must be so easy when you go to a rich private school . . .” etc.

I also like the letter-embiggening thing. Did I miss an announcement?

By: serafina zane

serafina zane — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:09:46 +0000

hmmm…..
well, i, as a sort of wierd person might use the term posh with my friends, joking or something.
alternatives…………
stuck-up? i also approve of preppy—it’s common term i use to describe my school of rich white kids.
i wouldn’t use hoity-toity or the like…i’d see it as more likely to say posh, at least with people i know.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:27:15 +0000

I think “posh” is fine. Second choice: preppy. I also like snobby and snooty. Fancy pants?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:37:58 +0000

Snobby or snotty or ritzy