That actually sounds unduly harsh.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Thu 25 Jun 2009, 12:38,
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But fair!More likely from slang posh "a dandy" (1890), from thieves' slang meaning "money" (1830), originally "coin of small value, halfpenny," possibly from Romany posh "half."
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19th century thieves' slang has a lot to answer for, actually, they just made up a bunch of words from scratch to avoid being understood.
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Thu 25 Jun 2009, 12:45,
archived)
/etymonline
19th century thieves' slang has a lot to answer for, actually, they just made up a bunch of words from scratch to avoid being understood.