Definition/Meaning of pooh

• English - Interjection: pooh Expressing dismissal , contempt , impatience , etc. 1694, William Congreve, Double-Dealer, I, i, 2: Pooh , ha, ha, ha, I know you envy me. 1600, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humor, iii, i, sig. iii I am carelesse what the fustie World speakes of me, puh. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell. 1859, S.S. Steele, Conjugal Lesson, page 182: Pooh! ... How you smell of tobacco.…
• English - Noun: pooh (countable and uncountable, plural poohs) (countable) An instance of say ing "pooh". 1818, Lord Byron, Beppo, canto vii, l. 4: A thing which causes many ‘ poohs ’ and ‘pishes’. 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished…
• English - Verb: pooh (third-person singular simple present poohs, present participle poohing, simple past and past participle poohed) (intransitive) To say "pooh". 1798, Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, volume I, page 44: The Doctor... pshaw'd and pooh'd for some time. 1614, The Nipping or Snipping of Abuses, John Taylor, L4: The wrimouth'd Crittick...That mewes, and puh's and shakes his brainelesse…
• English - Etymology: Originally onomatopoeic ("perhaps ancient" according to Online Etymology Dictionary) for a puff of air, after earlier poh and similar to later pew , phew , pho , phoo , poof . Later influenced by poop , onomatopoeic for the sound of flatulating and defecating , and by interjections of disgust similar to phew, pee-ew . Interjection for an unpleasant smell possibly linked to French puer (“to…
• English - Pronunciation: (UK) IPA: /phuː/ , /puː/ (US) IPA: /pu/ Rhymes: -uː