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Definition: Pooh-bah |
Pooh-bahNoun1. An arrogant or conceited person of importance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Pooh-bahSynonym: high-muck-a-muck (n). (additional references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pooh-bah" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pooh-bah" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pooh-bah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | álláshalmozó. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooh-bahpay người kiêm nhiệm nhiều chức. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-h-o-o-p" | |
-3 letters: hobo, hoop, opah, pooh. | |
-4 letters: abo, bah, bap, boa, boo, bop, hah, hao, hap, hob, hop, oho, ooh, pah, poh. | |
-5 letters: ab, ah, ba, bo, ha, ho, oh, op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-h-o-o-p" | |
+3 letters: homophobia. | |
+4 letters: homophobias, hydrophobia, photophobia. | |
+5 letters: hydrophobias, photophobias, technophobia. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6F 68 2D 62 61 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101111 01101000 00101101 01100010 01100001 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o o h - b a h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006F 0068 002D 0062 0061 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081817415686774 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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