pooh-pooh
/ˈpuˈpu/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.99 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[W]hen he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!"
- "In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth."
- "Mr Macey, though he joined in the defence of Marner against all suspicions of deceit, also pooh-poohed the tinder-box; indeed, repudiated it as a rather impious suggestion, tending to imply that everything must be done by human hands, and that there was no power which could make away with the guineas without moving the bricks."
- "if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed, by pooh-pooh!"
- "Pooh-poohing the IPCC's science has been one line of attack by [George W.] Bush's backers."
- "[Bill] Clinton haters will pooh-pooh all of these acknowledgements as the index of a compulsive sociability that knows no limits and upholds no standards, a psychic necessity we should not make into a moral virtue."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpuˈpu/
- British English: /ˌpuːˈpuː/