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pooh-bah
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pooh-bah has 1 sense
- pooh-bah(n = noun.person) high-muck-a-muck - an arrogant or conceited person of importance; Array is a kind of important person, influential person, personage
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pooh-bah, n. (also pooh-bah) a holder of many offices at once.
Etymology
a character in W. S. Gilbert's The Mikado (1885)
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