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pooh-poohs

pooh-poohs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pooh-pooh.

Meaning of pooh-pooh

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) 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

Questions about pooh-poohs

What is pooh-poohs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pooh-poohs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pooh-pooh.

Words near pooh-poohs in the dictionary

  1. pooh-pooh
  2. pooh-pooh theories
  3. pooh-pooh theory
  4. pooh-poohed
  5. pooh-poohing
  6. pooh-poohs
  7. poohbah
  8. poohbahs
  9. poohead
  10. pooheads
  11. poohed

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