bah

Interjection

1. (humorous, sometimes) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
   • "To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 301
   • This process being entirely inadequate to express the nature of his emotions he ejaculated "Bah!" and so gave Cripps to understand that he was now removed from consideration as a human being.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 141

   Synonyms:

   pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, poh, pish, ick, ych a fi, bleh

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BAH

BAH

1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Basic Allowance for Housing.
   • One user mouthed along to lines from the 2005 Gulf war drama Jarhead about being “dumb enough” to sign a military contract. “All that for BAH,” she wrote in the caption, referring to the housing allowance given to service people.2026 April 4, Alaina Demopoulos, “#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bah

Bah (plural Bahs)

1. A surname.