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Definition: POOH |
POOHInterjection1. Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt. |
Date "POOH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 64.29% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.71% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 ursinho pu, bah (nuts), ai (nuts, ouch, ow, woe). (various references) ptiu (damn, pah, phew, pshaw), bah. (various references) фу (boo, phew, ugh, yuck). (various references) bah (bah, pshaw). (various references) åh (ah, eh, hey, o, oh, ooh, ow). (various references) 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) тьху (tut, ugh). (various references) người kiêm nhiệm nhiều chức (pooh-bah). (various references) pw (bah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "POOH": poohed, poohing, poohs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "POOH" (pronounced puw") |
| 2 | p uw" | shampoo. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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