pooh-bah
呸呸呸,咅阝,呸,呸呸呸呸
Definitions
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- : a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- : a leader, authority, or other important person: one of the pooh bahs of the record industry.
- : a pompous, self-important person.
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Examples
Chernon Bah, co-founder of A World at School, was alarmed by what she witnessed recently in Sierra Leone.
Sharp always wanted to be an actor: his first role, aged 7, was as Piglet in Winnie-The-Pooh.
At a conference in London the following week, a senior retired U.S. Air Force commander pooh-poohed counterstealth efforts.
When his fellow panelists pushed back, he proceeded to pooh-pooh all those “experts” who have said otherwise.
The pope may pooh-pooh the decision to remain childless, but the world needs more people who choose pets over kids.
Father generally pooh-poohs the notion of there being any further trouble with Germany.
Pooh, they are only bogys invented by priests in days of darkness, in order to obtain power.
Finding that the wire fence would not yield she said "Bah-wah" and started in another direction.
He can't be after any mischief; 'tis not in the boy; when—when he is all but—Pooh!
She is as rotten and ricketty as an old tub; and very little—Bah!