or poss, poz, adj. and adv. (common).—Positive.
1708–10. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, Dialogue i. Lady Smart. What!… do you say it upon rep.? Neverout. POZ, I saw her with my own eyes.
1711. Spectator, No. 135. It is perhaps … speaking no more than we needs must which has so miserably curtailed some of our words, that … they often lose all but their first syllables, as in mob, rep, POS, incog, and the like.
1715. ADDISON, The Drummer, iii. 1. I will be flattered, that’s POS!
1719. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, v. 329.
| Drunk I was last Night that’s POSS, | |
| My wife began to Scold. |
1839–40. THACKERAY, Catherine, ii. [Century]. I will have a regiment to myself, that’s POZ.
1853. Diogenes, ii. 46. But the crier said, POZ, They were fresh as it was.
1886–96. MARSHALL, ‘Pomes’ from the Pink ’Un [‘The Dolls’], 24. While the public morals-shaper Thinks of writing to the paper To upset the show, if POS.
