pooh
see also: Pooh
Pronunciation Interjection
Pooh
Pronunciation
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see also: Pooh
Pronunciation Interjection
- Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
- Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.
- (euphemistic) Alternative form of poo#English|poo: a minced oath for 'shit'.
- 1992 July 22, Time, page 55:
- Mom offers everybody fudge and says ‘Oh, pooh!’ when she gets upset.
- 1992 July 22, Time, page 55:
- (expressing contempt) pht, feh, meh, pshaw, pish, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah
- (expressing disgust at a smell) bleah, eww, ick, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck
pooh
- (countable) An instance of saying "pooh".
- 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, OCLC 165778203 ↗; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], OCLC 23963073 ↗, page 181 ↗:
- She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
- 1818, Lord Byron, Beppo, canto vii, l. 4:
- A thing which causes many ‘poohs’ and ‘pishes’.
- (uncountable, childish) Alternative form of poo#English|poo: feces.
- (countable, chiefly UK, childish) Alternative form of poo#English|poo: A piece of feces; an act of defecation.
pooh (poohs, present participle poohing; past and past participle poohed)
- (intransitive) To say "pooh".
- 1614, John Taylor, The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, L4:
- The wrimouth'd Crittick...
That mewes, and puh's and shakes his brainelesse head...
- The wrimouth'd Crittick...
- 1798, Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, Vol. I, page 44:
- The Doctor... pshaw'd and pooh'd for some time.
- 1614, John Taylor, The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, L4:
- (transitive) To say "pooh" to.
- (intransitive, childish) Alternative form of poo#English|poo: To defecate or dirty something with feces.
- 1989 April 1, Crisis, page 19:
- My cat poohed in here.
- 2003 March 13, The Sun:
- We all know what happened to them—they... poohed their pants.
- 1989 April 1, Crisis, page 19:
- (all) pooh-pooh
Pooh
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /puː/
- Short for Winnie the Pooh.
- Portuguese: Puff, Pooh
- Russian: Пух
- Spanish: Pooh
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