英语词汇posh的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

posh. The old story says that posh is an acronym for “port outward, starboard home.” British civil servants traveling to In- dia on the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company line supposedly liked to have their accommodations on the port side of the ship leaving home and on the starboard side coming back, as these locations were shady and away from the weather. According to the tale, such first-class, or posh, state- rooms became a synonym for anything elegant or sophisticated. But unfortunately, the famous P & O line has no record of such an expression ever being used. This doesn’t prove that the in- genious story isn’t true, but the term is just as likely a contrac- tion of “polished” or “polish.” Posh is first recorded in 1897 as meaning “a dandy” and so may also be a corruption of the slang term pot (“big”), a person of importance. A corruption of the Scottish tosh, “neat and trim” isn’t out of the question, either.

词汇	posh
词源	posh. The old story says that posh is an acronym for “port outward, starboard home.” British civil servants traveling to In- dia on the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company line supposedly liked to have their accommodations on the port side of the ship leaving home and on the starboard side coming back, as these locations were shady and away from the weather. According to the tale, such first-class, or posh, state- rooms became a synonym for anything elegant or sophisticated. But unfortunately, the famous P & O line has no record of such an expression ever being used. This doesn’t prove that the in- genious story isn’t true, but the term is just as likely a contrac- tion of “polished” or “polish.” Posh is first recorded in 1897 as meaning “a dandy” and so may also be a corruption of the slang term pot (“big”), a person of importance. A corruption of the Scottish tosh, “neat and trim” isn’t out of the question, either.
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