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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pooh
interjection
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▪ Oh pooh! I forgot my keys.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pooh

Pooh \Pooh\, interj. [Of. imitative origin; cf. Icel. p[=u].] Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pooh

1590s, "a 'vocal gesture' expressing the action of puffing anything away" [OED], first attested in Hamlet Act I, Scene III, where Polonius addresses Ophelia with, "Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, / Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. / Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?" But the "vocal gesture" is perhaps ancient.

Wiktionary
pooh

alt. 1 Expression of dismissal or contempt. 2 Used when encountering an unpleasant smell. interj. 1 Expression of dismissal or contempt. 2 Used when encountering an unpleasant smell. vb. To say "pooh"; to make a dismissive, contemptuous sound.

Wikipedia
Pooh (comedian)

Reynold Garcia (born December 15, 1974 in Laoang, Northern Samar), known as Pooh, is a Filipino actor, comedian, impersonator, singer, host. He is known for currently starring in the comedy gag show Banana Split. He is also known for impersonating boxer and congressman Manny Pacquiao.

He was the 2006 and 2007 awardee for Aliw Award best male stand-up comedian. He was again nominated in 2008.

Pooh (disambiguation)

Pooh most often refers to Winnie-the-Pooh, a fictional teddy bear created by A.A. Milne and subsequently featured in films and TV adaptations.

Pooh may also mean:

Pooh (band)

Pooh are an Italian pop band formed in 1966 in Bologna. Over the course of their career they have sold over 100 million records.

Usage examples of "pooh".

For almost twenty years Pooh would not mention her dead sister, Cushie, but her fondness for children eventually confused her.

Would one rather the false commercial jollity, the coy intolerable tweeness of Winnie the Pooh?

Sad to say, that was where the similarity ended because, unlike Pooh Bear, there was nothing endearing or cuddly about Punky Balog.

I was in my new sunshine yellow Ford Escape, sitting across from Punky s dilapidated row house, and Punky had his huge Pooh butt plastered against his second-story window.

The fashions had turned to stretchables, whereas I was looking a little bit like Winnie the Pooh on skis with the wind flapping my pants when I came down the slopes.

London house of the author of Winnie the Pooh had been described to them, as had the love lives of Charlotte Bronte and of Miss Brodie herself.

Milne, the writer of the Pooh stories-a poem that no ballad maker in the fourteenth century could possibly know.

In addition to mystical and spiritual matters, the subjects that she chose to discuss with this plump deity included her opinions of the newest boy bands, whether her daily intake of selenium was sufficient, recipes for tofu, what hair styles were likely to be the most flattering to the shape of her face, and whether Pooh of Pooh Corners was a secret opium smoker with a secondary Prozac habit.