Poshen

Quick meaning: Poshen is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, UK) To make or become posh, to posh up.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, UK) To make or become posh, to posh up.

Example Sentences

Most people tend to poshen up their accent if they go for a job interview and a lot of us have a Sunday-best voice for when we answer the phone or talk to the doctor. We save our real accent for our family and friends.

([…] He's a grammar-school lad on the make, who poshened up at Cambridge and now can't speak normal, which makes him sound ludicrous when he tries. Along the way he also poshened up his team, dumping Fulham to follow Chelsea.)

Word Forms

• poshens
• poshening
• poshened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include posh, sprucen, primp, prink, upmarket, clean up.

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