Meaning

Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.
2. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.
3. (euphemistic) Alternative form of poo: a minced oath for 'shit'.
4. (countable) An instance of saying "pooh".
5. (uncountable, childish) Alternative form of poo: feces.
6. (countable, chiefly UK, childish) Alternative form of poo: A piece of feces; an act of defecation.
7. (intransitive) To say "pooh".
8. (transitive) To say "pooh" to.

Example Sentences

I am carelesse what the fustie World speakes of me, puh.

Pooh, ha, ha, ha, I know you envy me.

Pooh!... How you smell of tobacco.

Mom offers everybody fudge and says ‘Oh, pooh!’ when she gets upset.

She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.

A thing which causes many ‘poohs’ and ‘pishes’.

‘You're rather in the pooh with the Adelaide police.’ ‘How much do I stink with them?’

The wrimouth'd Crittick... That mewes, and puh's and shakes his brainelesse head...

Word Forms

• poo
• puh
• poogh
• pugh
• poohs
• poohing
• poohed

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When Should You Use Pooh?

Use pooh when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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