pooh-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. transitive verb Informal To express contempt for or impatience about; make light of: "British actors have long pooh-poohed the Method” (Stephen Schiff).

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  • And when Lionel started his bakery the French pooh-pooh-ed it. —  Seth Godin on standing out
  • Register Hardware's suggestions that a silent bin lorry in central Huddersfield could pose safety issues for any locals who forget to look both ways when crossing the road were pooh-pooh'd until the driver mentioned that he'd had two near misses that very morning. —  The Register
  • For too long, Ayers - whose group, the Weather Underground, caused the death of people with crude bombs - has been received by academia and other nitwits who pooh-pooh his radical actions during the 1960s and —  Gates of Vienna
  • They pooh-pooh what the right says and laugh about it to try to downplay it. —  RedState
  • You doubters can pooh-pooh the health effects of Little Hot Pot's herbal soups, patting your tube of Airborne or packet of Tylenol PM. —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Reduplication of pooh.

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  1. Reduplication of pooh.
  2. from pooh, pooh, a repeated form of pooh, interj.
 

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/ˈpupu/
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