pooh

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They will pooh-pooh it if you point it out, and get angry with you if the pooh isn't piled high enough to allow them to ignore it.

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  1. interjection Used to express disdain or disbelief.

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  1. Also poh, and formerly puh, pough, pow; cf. Icelandic , pooh; cf. pugh, pho, phoo, phy, fie, etc.
 

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