poshy

adj

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

   “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 […]”

2. (colloquial)Posh.

   “Trau, “The Morning Show”, Tele Reviews, page 27, column 5: Casting the top news developments, here and there supported by films, is Charles Collingwood, another down-to-earther despite the poshy aura about his background (Rhodes scholar, etc.) and the meticulous grooming. Abel, “Shirl Conway”, New Acts, page 55, column 5: Shirl Conway has been around in the poshier bistros and, after a European sabbatical, is back in the U.S., at the Maisonette of the plush St. Regis Hotel.”

   “North Ryde was open, real poshy people used to be there.”

   “Harry in the flesh, in his baggy, black designer jeans with their stupid overgrown turn-ups, in his big-heeled boots and his Indiana Jones rip-off battered leather coat, sitting there, trowel stuck Freudianly through his belt, dramatically half lit in his poshy university office, with his tossily clever PostModern collection of artefacts behind him: […]”

   “Well, look how nothing changes in the world / who turns it? Royal runt and poshy girl!”

   “By six o’clock the stores had closed, and at the appointed hour the little group of friends gathered for dinner at Detroit’s poshiest restaurant—The London Chop House. […] Not surprisingly, some of Al’s fellow officers were incensed when they were given tourist class accommodations while the German POW officers were given poshy First Class accommodations.”