Posh
Appearance
Posh is today an informal adjective for "upper class". The origin of the term supposedly stems from the days of ship traveling to the far east. When traveling to the far east on first class the object was to have "Portside Out Starboardside Home". To avoid the harsh Indian Ocean sun. It may also refer to:
Entertainment
[edit]- Posh (album), a 1980 album by Patrice Rushen
- "Posh!", a 1968 song from the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Posh (2006 TV series), a 2006 Philippine television drama
- Posh (play), by the British playwright Laura Wade, first staged in 2010
- The Riot Club, formerly titled Posh, a 2014 film adaptation of the play
Computing
[edit]- Plain Old Semantic HTML, a term used by the microformat community to describe some uses of Semantic HTML
- Poshlib, the Portable Open Source Harness
- PowerShell, sometimes abbreviated PoSh
Other
[edit]- Victoria Beckham (born 1974), singer nicknamed "Posh Spice" while she was a member of the Spice Girls
- Peterborough United F.C., an English football club, nicknamed "The Posh"
- Received Pronunciation, sometimes known as a "posh accent"
- Posh (Haganah unit), the commando arm of the Haganah during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
- Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 - Indian law, also called and popular as Prevention Of Sexual Harassment (POSH)
- Polyolefin oligomeric saturated hydrocarbons
See also
[edit]- Bacha posh, a cultural practice in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Pish Posh, a children's novel by Ellen Potter
- Sped-Posh, Siah-Posh and Safed-Posh, historic subdivisions of the Nuristani Afghani ethnic group
- All pages with titles containing Posh
- Posch, a surname