pooh-pooh
UK/ˌpuːˈpuː/US/ˈpuˈpu/
pooh-pooh verb: to dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
Verb
pooh-pooh (third-person singular simple present pooh-poohs, present participle pooh-poohing, simple past and past participle pooh-poohed)
- To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
- [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!1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 58, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 578
- 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.c. 1861, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “On Ribbons”, in Roundabout Papers, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1863, →OCLC
pooh-pooh meaning in Malayalam
pooh-pooh in Malayalam
- reject, dismiss, spurn
- പുച്ഛിച്ചുതള്ളുക, അലക്ഷ്യമാക്കുക, അഗണ്യമാക്കുക, അനാദരിക്ക, നിരസിക്കുക, അവഗണിക്കുക
Examples of pooh-pooh in a sentence
- if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh.1989, Blackadder Goes Forth:
- Pooh-poohing the IPCC's science has been one line of attack by [George W.] Bush's backers.2001 June 21, Murray Sayle, “After George W. Bush, the deluge”, in London Review of Books, volume 23, number 12, archived from the original...
Forms of pooh-pooh
| third-person singular present | pooh-poohs |
|---|---|
| present participle | pooh-poohing |
| past participle | pooh-poohed |
| past | pooh-poohed |
| alternative form | poohpooh |
| alternative form | poopoo |
Origin of pooh-pooh
From a reduplication of pooh (“an utterance of the word pooh”).
Phrases with pooh-pooh
Words that rhyme with pooh-pooh
Questions about pooh-pooh
- What does pooh-pooh mean?
- Pooh-pooh means to dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish.
- What is pooh-pooh in Malayalam?
- Pooh-pooh in Malayalam is പുച്ഛിച്ചുതള്ളുക, അലക്ഷ്യമാക്കുക, അഗണ്യമാക്കുക. See Pooh-pooh meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use pooh-pooh in a sentence?
- if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh.
- What part of speech is pooh-pooh?
- Pooh-pooh is a verb.
- How do you pronounce pooh-pooh?
- Pooh-pooh is pronounced /ˌpuːˈpuː/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of pooh-pooh?
- The past tense of pooh-pooh is pooh-poohed.
Words near pooh-pooh in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pooh-pooh (page history and authors); pooh-pooh (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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