Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh noun: a shoe.
Noun
Winnie the Pooh
- A shoe.
Proper noun
Winnie the Pooh (plural Winnie the Poohs)
- A talking bear from an English children's book series carrying the same name, noted for his sweet, simple nature, and his love of honey.
- No amount of Winnie the Poohs on the wall could distract you from seeing the huge bloodstain on the carpet.2004, John A. Miller, Jr, The Victorian Mansion Murders, Pima Books, →ISBN, page 40
- Even in Europe, where killer bees are not much a menace, we have developed a kind of Winnie-the-Pooh attitude to the bees: they are dangerous, they are unpredictable, and they are usually acting to thwart us.2007, Bee Wilson, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, Macmillan, page 221
- Synonyms:
- Pooh
- Chinese president Xi Jinping, due to his apparent resemblance.
- Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh - representing China's President Xi Jinping - as a defiant symbol of the island's resistance to Chinese war games.[…]
- Chinese censors have long targeted representations of Winnie the Pooh - created by British author A.A. Milne - over internet memes that compare the fictional bear to China's president.[…]
- While the Winnie the Pooh patch cannot be found on Chinese social media, Beijing has also been promoting videos and commentary about its drills around Taiwan.2023 April 10, Sarah Wu, Yew Lun Tian, Fabian Hamacher, Yimou Lee, “A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes viral”, in Gareth Jones, editor, Reuters, archived from the...
Winnie the Pooh meaning in Arabic, Persian and Thai
Winnie the Pooh in Arabic
- the fictional bear
- ويني-ذا-بوه, ويني الدبدوب wīnī-dabdūb
Winnie the Pooh in Persian
- the fictional bear
- وینی د پو
Winnie the Pooh in Thai
- the fictional bear
- วินนี่-เดอะ-พูห์
Examples of Winnie the Pooh in a sentence
- Awake each day with excitement; there are pirates to fight, a yellow brick road to find, and new parts of Winnie the Pooh's forest to explore.2011, Mark Grant, Out of the Box and onto Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, page 375:
- Winnie the Poohs can be a little smug and take great pride in the fact that while the rest of us are spinning like crazy tops, they're walking calmly through life.2012, Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough, Baker Books, page 44:
- They had all, to a man and woman, been rumbled, like so many Winnie The Poohs with their hands in Rabbit's honey pot.2013, Douglas Lindsay, The End Of Days, Blasted Heath Ltd, page 11:
- Like the time Mum made the Winnie the Pooh chocolate lollies for the cake sale, before cakes got banned.2014, Pamela Butchart, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:
Synonyms of Winnie the Pooh
Forms of Winnie the Pooh
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Winnie-the-Pooh |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Winnie the Poohs |
Origin of Winnie the Pooh
From a bear cub named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, and a swan named Pooh.
Words formed from Winnie the Pooh
Questions about Winnie the Pooh
- What does Winnie the Pooh mean?
- Winnie the Pooh means a shoe.
- What is Winnie the Pooh in Arabic?
- Winnie the Pooh in Arabic is ويني-ذا-بوه, ويني الدبدوب (wīnī-dabdūb). See Winnie the Pooh meaning in Arabic.
- How do you use Winnie the Pooh in a sentence?
- Awake each day with excitement; there are pirates to fight, a yellow brick road to find, and new parts of Winnie the Pooh's forest to explore.
- What part of speech is Winnie the Pooh?
- Winnie the Pooh can be a noun or a proper noun.
Words near Winnie the Pooh in the dictionary
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