ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Poshy

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Poshy is an adjective meaning (agriculture, archaic) Of land: sticky, clayey, binding.

Meaning

(agriculture, archaic) Of land: sticky, clayey, binding.

More Meanings

  1. (colloquial) Posh.

Example Sentences

North Ryde was open, real poshy people used to be there.
Well, look how nothing changes in the world / who turns it? Royal runt and poshy girl!
Plant shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen; but avoid a poshy state of the land, if it be binding or clayey.
I prefer a deep, rich loam, neither clay nor sand, but what the plough boys call "poshy land," sticks to the plough […]

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