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posey

adj

Etymology

From pose + -y.

  1. derived from *bew-✻ — “to blow, swell”
  2. derived from *pusōną✻
  3. inherited from *pusą✻ — “sneeze, snort”
  4. inherited from *pos✻
  5. derived from pos
  6. inherited from ġeposu — “cold in the head; catarrh”
  7. inherited from pose
  8. suffixed as posey — “pose + y”

Definitions

  1. Pretentious

    Pretentious; posturing.

    • […] I missed one of Freda's main revelations because I got distracted by the posey glide she was making across the room […]

  2. A surname.

  3. A place in the United States

    A place in the United States:

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA