pooh

Interjection

1. Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
   • I am carelesse what the fustie World speakes of me, puh.1600, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humor, iii, i, sig. iii
   • Pooh, ha, ha, ha, I know you envy me.1694, William Congreve, Double-Dealer, I, i, 2

   Synonyms:

   pht

2. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.
   • Pooh!... How you smell of tobacco.1859, S.S. Steele, Conjugal Lesson, page 182

   Synonyms:

   bleah

Noun

pooh (countable and uncountable, plural poohs)

1. (countable) An instance of saying "pooh".
   • She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe...
   • A thing which causes many ‘poohs’ and ‘pishes’.1818, Lord Byron, Beppo, canto vii, l. 4

Verb

pooh (third-person singular simple present poohs, present participle poohing, simple past and past participle poohed)

1. (intransitive) To say "pooh".
   • The wrimouth'd Crittick...
     That mewes, and puh's and shakes his brainelesse head...1614, The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, John Taylor, L4
   • The Doctor... pshaw'd and pooh'd for some time.1798, Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, volume I, page 44
2. (transitive) To say "pooh" to.
   • ‘Pooh! pooh!’ re-echoed his mother, ‘don't pooh me, John.’1858, Archer Polson, Law & Lawyers, page 15

Proper noun capitalized: Pooh

US/puː/

Pooh

1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Winnie the Pooh.