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单词 pooh-bah
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Definition of pooh-bah in English:

pooh-bah

nounpuːˈbɑːˈpubɑ
  • A person having much influence or holding many offices at the same time, especially one who is perceived as pompously self-important.

    a pair of government pooh-bahs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The chophouse has been renowned as a gathering spot for Minnesota's political pooh-bahs since the Great Depression.
    • Our cultural pooh-bahs simply can't bear to admit that the scene they presume to be such a part of is a bastion of mediocrity.
    • I love the fact that the self-important pooh-bahs at 43rd Street now have to worry that they'll be corrected on a daily basis by a bunch of former nobodies.
    • He's looking awfully good by comparison to the pooh-bahs of the business today.
    • But this self-important pooh-bah is more than an ominous senior legal and political figure.

Origin

From the name of a character in W. S. Gilbert's The Mikado (1885).

Rhymes

aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah
 
 

Definition of pooh-bah in US English:

pooh-bah

(also Pooh-Bah)
nounˈpo͞obäˈpubɑ
  • A person having much influence or holding many offices at the same time, especially one perceived as pompously self-important.

    a pair of government pooh-bahs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The chophouse has been renowned as a gathering spot for Minnesota's political pooh-bahs since the Great Depression.
    • He's looking awfully good by comparison to the pooh-bahs of the business today.
    • I love the fact that the self-important pooh-bahs at 43rd Street now have to worry that they'll be corrected on a daily basis by a bunch of former nobodies.
    • But this self-important pooh-bah is more than an ominous senior legal and political figure.
    • Our cultural pooh-bahs simply can't bear to admit that the scene they presume to be such a part of is a bastion of mediocrity.

Origin

From the name of a character in W. S. Gilbert's The Mikado (1885).

 
 
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