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Definition: Pooh-pooh |
Pooh-poohVerb1. Express contempt about. 2. Reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pooh-pooh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonyms: Pooh-poohSynonyms: disdain (v), freeze off (v), reject (v), scorn (v), spurn (v), turn down (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We're looking for a new food critic, someone who doesn't immediately pooh-pooh everything he eats. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Celine Dion | I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is right. What's in the pooh-pooh is like the Bible. The truth is in there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pooh-pooh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pooh-pooh" is used about 2 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "pooh-pooh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | nevet (laugh, to crack up, to laugh, to laugh loud and long, to pooh-pooh), kinevet (deride, mock, ridicule, to deride, to pooh-pooh, to ridicule, to scoff at). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | jannoo beggan jeh (disregard, gloze). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooh-poohpay rynka på näsan åt (frown on, pooh pooh). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Pooh-pooh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Booh-booh, poo-poo, poo-poos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-h-o-o-o-o-p-p" | |
-2 letters: hoopoo. | |
-4 letters: hoop, pooh, poop. | |
-5 letters: hop, oho, ooh, poh, pop. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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