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Pooh-pooh

//ˌpuːˈpuː// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To dismiss idly with contempt or derision; to diminish. transitive

    "[W]hen he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!"

  2. 2
    reject with contempt wordnet
  3. 3
    express contempt about wordnet

Etymology

From a reduplication of pooh (“an utterance of the word pooh”).

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