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POOH

Definition: POOH

POOH

Interjection

1. Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "POOH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)


Synonyms within Context: POOH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unimportance

Interjection: no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge! bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind! n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff! nonsense!

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: POOH

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Pooh, haven't you been listening to Rabbit? (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

Pooh bear, just get in the car. (Legally Blonde; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz)

Oh Pooh, you messed up my moose! (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Xavier Atencio)

Just like Winnie the Pooh! (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Nice introduction there Pooh boy (Piglet's Big Movie; writing credit: Pitof; Claire-France Thévenon)

Movie/TV Titles

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974)

The Book of Pooh (2001)

Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Detective Tigger (1997)

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988)

Winnie the Pooh Friendship: Tigger-ific Tales (1988)

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

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Commercial Usage: POOH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water: A Pooh Read-Along (reference)

  • Winnie-The-Pooh on Problem Solving: In Which Pooh, Piglet, and Friends Explore How to Solve Problems, So You Can Too (reference)

  • Pooh Freezy Breezy Fun (reference)

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh Balloon Book: Learn Colors and Numbers With Pooh (Winnie the Pooh) (reference)

  • Disney Winnie the Pooh Sweet Dreams, Pooh! Gift Set (3 Bedtime Board Books with 3 Plush Characters) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (25th Anniversary Edition) (reference)

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (reference)

  • Winnie the Pooh - Boo to You Too (reference)

  • Winnie the Pooh: Pooh Learning - Sharing & Caring (reference)

  • Winnie the Pooh - Very Merry Pooh Year (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Use in Literature: POOH

TitleAuthorQuote

Winnie the Pooh

A.A. Milne

Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, there's always Pooh and me. Whatever I do, he wants to do; 'Where are you going today?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: POOH

"POOH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "POOH" is used about 70 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
Noun (singular)64.29%4550,900
Noun (proper)35.71%2569,787
                    Total100.00%70N/A

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

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Expression: POOH

Expressions using "POOH": Interjection: no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh pooh pooh winnie the pooh. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "POOH": pooh-bah, Pooh-pooh, pooh-poohed, pooh-poohing, pooh-poohs.

Ending with "POOH": Winnie-the-pooh.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POOH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

winnie the pooh

11,008

winni the pooh

139

pooh

3,018

winnie the pooh and friend

131

winnie the pooh picture

1,866

winnie the pooh screensaver

131

pooh bear

752

pooh bear picture

129

winnie the pooh wallpaper

650

winnie the pooh clip art

127

pooh friend

644

winnie the pooh screen saver

126

winnie the pooh baby bedding

601

winnie the pooh background

125

winnie the pooh bear

567

pooh wallpaper

117

winnie the pooh book

498

winny the pooh

114

classic pooh

344

winnie the pooh game

103

winnie the pooh coloring page

335

de imagenes pooh winnie

87

picture of the pooh

260

winnie the pooh bedding

86

pooh quot quot winnie

247

disney pooh

83

winnie the pooh pic

225

winnie the pooh friend picture

83

winne the pooh

193

winie the pooh

77

winnie the pooh clipart

175

coloring page pooh

72

classic winnie the pooh

159

whinnie the pooh

70

winnie the pooh quote

158

pooh pic

68

winnie the pooh.com

155

winnie the pooh and tigger

67

winnie de pooh

142

the tao of pooh

67
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POOH

Language Translations for "POOH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تغوط (defecate, defecation, dejection, evacuate, evacuation, motion, movement, pass, pass water). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bah (bah, nuts). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ba (bah, nuts). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tvætl (bah, nuts). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

علامت انزجاروبی صبری , اه وپیف . (various references)

   

French

  

faire caca, baste. (various references)

   

German

  

puh (phew, ugh), pfui (boo, oy, shame, shoo, ugh, yuck), pah (pshaw), bah (Bahamas). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

semmi az egész! (pooh is that all!), 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)

   

Italian

  

puah (pah, poo). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

小熊のプーさ" (Winnie the Pooh). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"ぐまのプーさ" (Winnie the Pooh). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo beggan jeh (disregard, gloze, pooh-pooh). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oohpay

   

Portuguese

  

ursinho pu, bah (nuts), ai (nuts, ouch, ow, woe). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ptiu (damn, pah, phew, pshaw), bah. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фу (boo, phew, ugh, yuck). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bah (bah, pshaw). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

åh (ah, eh, hey, o, oh, ooh, ow). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

püf (humph, pish, pshaw, puff), of (ah, humph, ouch, phew, pish, pshaw, ugh, whew), öf (ah, humph, ouch, phew, pish, pshaw, ugh, whew). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тьху (tut, ugh). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người kiêm nhiệm nhiều chức (pooh-bah). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pw (bah). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: POOH

Derivations

Words beginning with "POOH": poohed, poohing, poohs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "POOH"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "POOH" (pronounced puw")
2p uw"shampoo.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: POOH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hoop.

Words within the letters "h-o-o-p"

-1 letter: hop, oho, ooh, poh.

-2 letters: ho, oh, op.

 Words containing the letters "h-o-o-p"
 

+1 letter: hoops, oomph, phono, photo, pooch, poohs, whoop.

 

+2 letters: gonoph, hookup, hooped, hooper, hoopla, hoopoe, hoopoo, morpho, oompah, oomphs, phonon, phonos, phooey, photog, photon, photos, poncho, poohed, whoops.

 

+3 letters: gonophs, harpoon, hencoop, hookups, hoopers, hooping, hooplas, hoopoes, hoopoos, hoptoad, hotspot, morphos, oompahs, oophyte, phonons, photoed, photogs, photons, ponchos, pooched, pooches, pooftah, poohing, poorish, pothole, pothook, potshot, shampoo, shopboy, toyshop, typhoon, upshoot, whooped, whoopee, whooper, whoopie, whoopla.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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