posish

He put on the remaining pair of gloves, and took a pugilistic "posish" that alarmed me.

"Colonel, the Rebs are making it so hot out yonder, I can't hold my ‘posish’."

The enemy was in a splendid ‘posish’ on a high hill commanding the country.

At what seemed to be a lull in the action, Joe concluded to climb the ladder to the roof to survey the battlefield. “I'm going up to see the posish (position),” he announced to Jim Bainter.

My favorite posish is doggystyle.