Dianna's Weekly Dash of Different Diction

In last week's Dianna's Weekly Dash of Different Diction we mentioned how people like the sounds of other words because they sound very posh. This word is fairly well known in the United States but it isn't used very frequently. Really, the most we come across is when Victoria Beckham was known as Posh Spice in the Spice Girls. Otherwise it doesn't really come across in our vocabulary.

Posh (v.): very classy or sophisticated.

This term is used very frequently here. I've found it can be used in two different ways (1) to explain something that is fancy or (2) to make it seem like someone or something is a bit snobby. Some examples in a sentence are:
-"People in Morningside all think they're very posh."
-"She looks really posh. I love her dress."
-"He talked really posh. He thought he was better than everyone else there."