posish

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of position.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈzɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

Noun

posish (plural posishes)

1. (colloquial, often military slang or sexual slang) Short for position.

   He put on the remaining pair of gloves, and took a pugilistic "posish" that alarmed me.

   "Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’."

   The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.

   At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.

   My favorite posish is doggystyle.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     And feeling that it would do no harm to get his views on the Kipper situation, I unfolded the tale. “So you see the posish,” I concluded.

References

• TVRage, Jeeves and Wooster, "Show Slang"

Anagrams

• Sophis