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pooh-pooh
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb pooh-pooh has 2 senses
- pooh-pooh(v = verb.communication) Array - express contempt about; Array is one way to express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize
- pooh-pooh(v = verb.communication) disdain, freeze off, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" is one way to decline, refuse
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
pooh-pooh, v. t.
To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pooh-pooh, v.tr. express contempt for; ridicule; dismiss (an idea etc.) scornfully.
Etymology
redupl. of POOH
ROGET THESAURUS
pooh-pooh
Contempt
VB despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye, disregard, slight, not mind, pass by, look down upon, hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect, think nothing of, think small beer of, make light of, underestimate, esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account, take no account of, care nothing for, set no store by, not care a straw, sneeze at, set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, damn with faint praise, whistle at, sneer at, curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas, laugh at, point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn, scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at, turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon, tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot, spurn, kick, fling to the winds, send away with a flea in the ear.
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