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When you pooh-pooh an idea, a plan, or someone's work, you say it is silly or not worth much. You do not sit down and test it; you push it away with a little in your voice. It is a verb: they pooh-poohed my idea; please don't pooh-pooh her effort. The feel is informal and a bit old. Newspapers still like it. Younger speakers more often say “that's dumb” or “that will never work.” Though actually, it is softer than a hard insult — more a wave of the hand than a shout — but it can still sting, because it treats the thought as not worth a real look. The usual spelling has a short line in the middle: pooh-pooh. This is not the bear.
組成From saying the sound pooh twice — a reduplication of pooh (“an utterance of the word pooh”).
同家族的字
- poohthe sound being said twice
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pooh-poohverb/ˌpuːˈpuː/
- 1
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!
- In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth.
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