phoo-phoo
/ˌfuːˈfuː/verb
[with object] To express contempt or disdain for, to dismiss, ridicule, make light of.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Cornhill Magazine. From phoo, with reduplication.
- believe me (or believe you me)
- believer
- believer's baptism
- believingly
- belight
- be light on
- be light on one's feet
- belike
- be like getting blood out of (or from) a stone (also turnip)
- be like Piccadilly Circus
- be (like) putty in someone's hands
- belimb
- belime
- Belisha beacon
- belitter
- belittle
- belittlement
- belittler
- belittlingly
- Belitung
- be (living) on borrowed time
- Belizan
- Belize
- Belizean
- Belize City