different between luxurious vs posh

English

Etymology

From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios (modern French luxurieux), from Latin luxuriosus (“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”), from luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??????.i.?s/, /l???zj??.i.?s/, /l?k?sj??.i.?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??????.i.?s/, /l?k????.i.?s/

Adjective

luxurious (comparative more luxurious, superlative most luxurious)

1. Very fine in quality and comfortable.

   a luxurious hotel suite

2. (dated) Enjoying the pleasures of luxury.
   • 1857, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association

     When one looks at the elegantly dressed people round the gaming table, who perhaps laugh at everything which impresses other people with awe, who scoff at the Church and the Bible, one could scarcely think it possible that these enlightened, pleasure-loving, luxurious men of the world, carry on in secret, cabalistic nonsense, turning over cards, fortune telling, studying the significance of signs and dreams […]

Synonyms

• epicurean

Antonyms

• impoverished
• abstemious

Related terms

• luxuriant
• luxuriate
• luxuriously
• luxury

Translations

See also

• sumptuous

Further reading

• luxurious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• luxurious at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Alternative forms

• luxsorius, luxorious, luxoryows, luxuryouse, luxuriouse

Etymology

From Old French luxurios, from Latin luxuriosus; equivalent to luxurie +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luk?sju?ri?u?s/, /luk?sju?rius/

Adjective

luxurious

1. Lusty, lascivious; sexually transgressive.
2. Shocking; surprising in a negative way.

Descendants

• English: luxurious

References

• “lux?ri?us, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-20.

English

Etymology

Unknown.

Most likely derived from Romani posh (“half”), either because posh-kooroona (“half a crown”) (originally a substantial sum of money) was used metaphorically for anything pricey or upper-class, or because posh-houri (“half-penny”) became a general term for money.

A period slang dictionary defines "posh" as a term used by thieves for "money : generic, but specifically, a halfpenny or other small coin". An example is given from Page's Eavesdropper (1888): "They used such funny terms: 'brads,' and 'dibbs,' and 'mopusses,' and 'posh' ... at last it was borne in upon me that they were talking about money."

Evidence exists for a slang sense from the 1890s meaning dandy, which is quite possibly related.

A popular folk etymology holds that the term is an acronym for "port out, starboard home", describing the cooler, north-facing cabins taken by the most aristocratic or rich passengers travelling from Britain to India and back. However, there is no evidence for this claim.

See also the articles mentioned in the References section below for additional discussion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??/, IPA^(key): /p???/ (humorous or upper-class)
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

posh (comparative posher or more posh, superlative poshest or most posh)

1. Associated with the upper classes.

2. Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).

3. (usually offensive, especially in Scotland and Northern England) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.

Quotations

• 1919: "Well, it ain't one of the classic events. It were run over there." Docker jerked a thumb vaguely in the direction of France. "At a 'Concours Hippique,' which is posh for 'Race Meeting.' — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919

Derived terms

• posh wank
• poshen
• poshdom
• poshful
• poshly
• poshness
• posho
• poshy

Translations

Interjection

posh!

1. An exclamation expressing derision.
   • 1889: "The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers--I snap my fingers at him." — Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Was

Noun

posh (uncountable)

1. fragments produced by an impact
2. slush

Verb

posh (third-person singular simple present poshes, present participle poshing, simple past and past participle poshed)

1. (normally in the phrasal verb posh up) To make posh, or posher.

   Synonym: poshen

References

• posh at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Hosp., OHPs, PHOs, Soph, hops, hosp, phos, shop, soph

Maricopa

Noun

posh

1. cat

Romani

Alternative forms

• push

Etymology

From Old Armenian ???? (p?oši). Doublet of poshík.

Noun

posh

1. dust

References

• A?a?ean, Hra??eay (1979) , “????”, in Hayer?n armatakan ba?aran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 517a
• Vaillant, Jean-Alexandre (1868) , “pos'”, in Grammaire, dialogues et vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens ou Cigains (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve, page 123a