Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Informal To express contempt for or impatience about; make light of: "British actors have long pooh-poohed the Method” ( Stephen Schiff).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An exclamation indicating contempt.
- To turn aside from with a “Pooh”; express dislike, scorn, or contempt for; sneer at.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. colloq. To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt
WordNet 3.0
- v. reject with contempt
- v. express contempt about
Etymologies
- Reduplication of pooh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm sure some designers would pooh-pooh and say, 'how provincial,' but I loved it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fashion Weeks Gone Wild, From Aruba to Karachi
“Don't pooh-pooh the fact that I didn't have the power to claw it back," he said.”
“On the other hand, some market pros pooh-pooh any October fears, noting that the market is on a roll, what with the Dow -- largely reflecting expectations of a zippier economy -- having ballooned more than 700 points since late July.”
The Huffington Post: Dan Dorfman: More Than Those Autumn Leaves Could Fall
“Should an investigation (a transparent one, mind you) reveal the hollow-hearted evil that too many assume true to just pooh-pooh, the retribution would not just be directed at a relatively well-protected him, but at the less-protected average U.S. citizen daring to move about the world.”
“It pisses me off when people simply pooh-pooh the idea of the Bush administration somehow being involved with 9/11.”
“Berlioz was quite right to pooh-pooh the story that appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1848 when he was conducting opera at Drury Lane: that as he left the Odéon theatre in Paris in 1827 after seeing Charles Kemble and Harriet Smithson in Romeo and Juliet he exclaimed: "I shall marry that woman and write my grandest symphony on the play.”
“Any native Detroiter will echo Motor City Mayor Dave Bing, who took to Twitter this month to pooh-pooh a public suggestion that Detroit build a statue to the city's cybernetic policeman.”
The Washington Post: Galleries: 'Heirlooms' at Transformer; 'Bound' at Hamiltonian
“But, don't expect him to pooh-pooh that program: Many of its recipients are from middle and upper-income families.”
“The failure-to-be-frank over Goldsmith's departure was far from the most important thing the mayor has tried to pooh-pooh off the front pages.”
“Some folks in more gringo areas than I'm in pooh-pooh the need for this, but believe me, it works. sakfogel”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pooh-pooh’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Hyphenated Repeats
Exactly reduplicated words connected by a hyphen.
aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 436 more...
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Toot Toot, Beep Beep!
chichi, tomtom, weewee, poohpooh, tutu, tsetse, ta-ta, peepee, woop woop, ack-ack, ding-ding, bon bon and 44 more...
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May or May Not Be Specific, But It's ...
This list will contain all non-excremental references to poo. See its ancestor list, Specific Excrement, which has generated no small amount of conversation (heated and otherwise) since its incepti...
fernando poo, a pooping sea, poop deck, clinchpoop, pimiento load, crappie, very reverend con..., pookimo, pootalian, kickapoo, skypoo, swheat-n-poo and 72 more...
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You Can Say That Again
dum-dum, dik-dik, doo-doo, aye-aye, bling-bling, bye-bye, boo-boo, buddy-buddy, frou-frou, gado-gado, gee-gee, gang-gang and 32 more...
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deftly, coracle, delectable, snug, sprawly, disquieting, dismiss, peer, chimney, cosy, nursery, peep and 48 more...
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camgurl's Words
discombobulated, anti-macassar, amok, bifurcate, dado, gorgon, substrate, matrix, succulent, surreptitious, hijinks, foolhardy and 38 more...
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double double
found on a little post-it in a library book
walla-walla, tomtom, couscous, bonbon, pompom, froufrou, chi-chi, poopoo, booboo, pooh-pooh, pupu, tutu and 5 more...
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roush's Words
galore, razzmatazz, pooh-pooh, hoi polloi, skosh, agnomen, agnomen
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pooh-pooh.
yarb He had unfortunately made light of it and pooh-poohed the ailment...
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon Jul 18, 2008