stoosh

stoosh
1) adj
a.
costly
b.
wealthy
c.
offensively ostentatious or snobbish
The word, heard in London speech since 2000, occurs in Jamaican slang but its ex-act origins are obscure.
2) adj
British
presumptuous, arrogant, overbearing. The fashionable term, recorded among adolescents in the 1990s, was defined by Touch magazine in September 1993 as 'acting like your shit don't stink'. The origin of the expression is uncertain.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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