单词 | pooh-pooher |
释义 | > as lemmaspooh-ˈpooher pooh-ˈpooher n. a person who pooh-poohs something. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > contemptuous person > one who expresses contempt vocally pooh-pooher1841 pooh-poohist1861 pooh pooh1867 pisher1901 the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of > adherent of pooh-pooher1841 anomalist1854 nativist1924 1841 C. Dickens Let. 2 Apr. (1969) II. 249 The pooh-poohers and Lord Burleighs have it hollow, all the world through. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake iii. 498 The poohpooher old bossloose, with his arthurious clayroses..busted to the wurld at large. 1991 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 18 Dec. 14/2 I set out on a Wednesday night to prove the pooh-poohers, naysayers and ne'er-do-wells wrong. < as lemmas |
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