Poshtitution
Glossary term
/ˌpɒʃ.tɪˈtjuː.ʃən/
Prostitution with better vowels. Practised by persons for whom class remains important even when trousers do not.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…to the getting of the aforementioned commodities, the said husbandry being brought about as earlier divulged, viz. by poshtitution. Hence, the widowhood of Lady Snatch brought with it the halving of a burden - a lacuna she quite reasonably filled by recourse to diverse apothecaries, purposing to develop and extend her own hobby horse in the matter of laudanum and gin, sauce for the gander being, when she considered the…