poshocracy

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English

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Etymology

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From posh +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

Noun

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poshocracy

  1. A social elite.
    • 1996, James R. Fisher, The Taboo Against Being Your Own Best Friend, page 166:
      Scientists are taken at their word, which has little to do with their character. A poshocracy exists in which scientists from smart universities and research centers can tell us anything and it is widely accepted as gospel.
    • 2003, M. E. Bury, E. J. Winter, Corpus Christi: Within Living Memory, page 26:
      This, and perhaps a remark I made about the silly playfulness of the poshocracy, gave deep offence and led to the 'wrecking', as I called it, of my allotted rooms in the Old Court.
    • 2006, The Wentworths: Alias 'un-named', page 256:
      'Too confoundedly poshocracy for my liking,' grunted Philip.
    • 2013, Christopher Isherwood, Lions and Shadows, page 37:
      We used to watch the Poshocracy from our window as they walked about the court, met, waved gaily, exchanged suitably jolly greetings.
    • 2016, Benjamin Kohlmann, Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain, page 26:
      What garnered contempt from the pair were the criteria upon which admission to the poshocracy depended, criteria founded on the cliquery of the English upper classes, a cliquery that, disseminated as 'team spirit' (14) in public schools and perpetuated by the most privileged and credulous of undergraduates, found its way full-circle in the mentality of the graduating elite.

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