poshlyadv.
/ˈpɒʃli/, U.S. /ˈpɑʃli/ colloquial.
In a ‘posh’ manner.
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1955 ‘N. Bell’ My Writing Life v. 128 We climbed the stairs at The Scholartis Press to sign the ten poshly bound copies, in ‘blue art silk’.
1963 J. Morris Road to Huddersfield viii. 234 Many a poshly educated young man..soon reverts to his Huddersfield brogue.
1976 Forbes 15 Sept. 28/2 The excitement was thick around Continental's poshly decorated, 39-th floor New York headquarters last month.
1983 Listener 1 Sept. 35/2 The whole purpose of street entertainers, or less poshly but more accurately, ‘buskers’ is to be ‘outside’ in both senses of the words.
2003 Face June 59/2 I had a Cardiff accent and I'd tohk like thaaaht, and they all (poshly) tawked like theht.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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