sosh

sosh

slang A phonetic shortening of "socialite," meaning someone who is or strives to be a prominent figure in high or fashionable society. What would you know about an honest day's work? You're just some spoiled sosh who's spent their entire life being pampered and looked after. I don't know why you act like a sosh when we're out in public. Do you think you're fooling anyone?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sosh

(soʃ)
n. a (young female) socialite. Tiffany looks like a sosh, but she’s just a working girl.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • reg
  • Uncle Sid
  • prostie
  • prosties
  • sid
  • sidney
  • cuz
  • key
  • cazh
  • et seq.
References in periodicals archive
"Sosh" refers to the West Point Social Sciences Department where many of the "insurgents" studied and taught.
McMaster, another Sosh alum, studied for his PhD at the University of North Carolina where he wrote Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1997).
Soon after 9/11, Sosh created the Combating Terrorism Center and the academy increased every cadet's mandatory foreign language training from three days per week to five.
For some reason, everyone wants new potatoes and nobody the roast variety, which rightly confuses Sosh.
Under the direction of a principal architect (Marnell Architecture), two executive architects (Bower Lewis Thrower Architects and Cope Linder Associates), and a consulting architect (SOSH Architects), the project plans began to take shape.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of the cross border livestock trade between Somalia and Kenya, which Little describes in enormous detail, has been the continuing dependence on the Somali shilling (SoSh) as the currency of exchange.
Being in the American League, Sosh (Angels' manager Mike Scioscia) lets me DH once in awhile."
The rugose coral assemblage is poor, containing Amplexocarinia socialis Sosh. (dominant), Amplexocarinia sp., Euryphyllum sp.
Roland Travis Fabrizio Filippo Annie Price Kate Hodge Michael Kelly Wilbert "Tibbs" Thibodeaux Jerry Hooten Romany Malco Jack Wiley Max Martini Sosh Kim Murphy Joss Nakano Susie Park Jargon Esteban Powell In a fall season marked by low expectations, UPN delivers a surprise with this slick action thriller that brings to mind the original "Mission: Impossible" series.
But the trip ended in disaster when the two officials were caught up in the propellors of a pleasure boat on the River Sosh.
Levy said, "The sosh' [social security] number goes so far today.
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British exploration group Heritage Oil plc (LON:HOIL) said it had, via a wholly-owned unit, acquired a 51% stake in Libyan oil field service provider Sahara Oil Services Holdings Ltd (SOSH) for USD19.5m (EUR14.5m) in cash.
Asbury Partners, the city-appointed master developer for Oceanfront Asbury, retained SOSH Architects to design the retail plan for Oceanfront Asbury in late 2002.