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Pooh-bah

Definition: Pooh-bah

Pooh-bah

Noun

1. An arrogant or conceited person of importance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Pooh-bah

Synonym: high-muck-a-muck (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Pooh-bah

DomainTitle

Books

  • Years of the Pooh-Bah : a Cook Islands history (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pooh-bah

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Interjection100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pooh-bah

Language Translations for "pooh-bah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

álláshalmozó. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ooh-bahpay

   

Vietnamese 

  

người kiêm nhiệm nhiều chức. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pooh-bah

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Pooh-bah


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 6F 68 2D 62 61 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01101111 01101000 00101101 01100010 01100001 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#111 &#104 &#45 &#98 &#97 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006F 0068 002D 0062 0061 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081817415686774

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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