poshy
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]poshy (comparative more poshy, superlative most poshy)
- (agriculture, archaic) Of land: sticky, clayey, binding.
- 1849, British Farmer's Magazine, number 16, page 461:
- Plant shrubs and trees, deciduous or evergreen; but avoid a poshy state of the land, if it be binding or clayey.
- 1877, Southern Cultivator, volume 35, page 306:
- I prefer a deep, rich loam, neither clay nor sand, but what the plough boys call "poshy land," sticks to the plough […]