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POOH-POOH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pooh-pooh mean?

• POOH-POOH (verb)
The verb POOH-POOH has 2 senses:

1. express contempt about
2. reject with contempt

Familiarity information: POOH-POOH used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POOH-POOH (verb)

Sense 1

pooh-pooh ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Express contempt about

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "pooh-pooh" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

pooh-pooh ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Reject with contempt

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

freeze off; spurn; disdain; pooh-pooh; scorn; turn down; reject

Context example:

She spurned his advances

Hypernyms (to "pooh-pooh" is one way to...):

decline; refuse (show unwillingness towards)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pooh-pooh"):

rebuff; repel; snub (reject outright and bluntly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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