frou-frou vs posh

frou-frou

adj
  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

posh

adj
  • Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive). 

  • Associated with the upper classes. 

  • Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else. 

verb
  • To make posh, or posher. 

noun
  • fragments produced by an impact 

  • slush 

intj
  • An exclamation expressing derision. 

How often have the words frou-frou and posh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )