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poohing

poohing is the present participle and gerund of pooh.

Meaning of pooh

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
  2. (transitive) To say "pooh" to.
    • ‘Pooh! pooh!’ re-echoed his mother, ‘don't pooh me, John.’1858, Archer Polson, Law & Lawyers, page 15

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Questions about poohing

What is poohing the present participle and gerund of?
Poohing is the present participle and gerund of pooh.

Words near poohing in the dictionary

  1. poohead
  2. pooheads
  3. poohed
  4. poohface
  5. poohfaces
  6. poohing
  7. poohpooh
  8. poohpoohed
  9. poohpoohing
  10. poohpoohs
  11. poohs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poohing (page history and authors); pooh (page history and authors). 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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