What does bah mean?
Bah means (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper..
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/bæ/ · interjection
(sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper..
"To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor.
This process being entirely inadequate to express the nature of his emotions he ejaculated "Bah!" and so gave Cripps to understand that he was now removed from consideration as a human being.
“Bah!” cried the woman. “My husband will know!”
Templeton looked over the assembled servants speculatively, then shrugged. "Bah!" he said. "They're of no use to me. Come, Andrew, a word with you upstairs."
`There, cut his throat quick. Where is the saucer?' `The Goat! the Goat! the Goat! Give me the blood of my black goat! I must have it, don't you see I must have it? Oh! oh! oh! give me the blood of the goat.' At this moment a terrified bah! announced that the poor goat had been sacrificed, and the next minute a woman ran up with a saucer full of blood.
Use bah when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bah means (sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper..
Common synonyms include pht, feh, meh, pooh.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor.
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