pooh-pooh
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
pooh-pooh (pooh-poohs, present participle pooh-poohing; past and past participle pooh-poohed)
- (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 58, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, published 1848, OCLC 926207764 ↗, page 578 ↗:
- [W]hen he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 58, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, published 1848, OCLC 926207764 ↗, page 578 ↗:
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