pooh poohed
Example Sentences
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In the evening he found an opportunity of telling his master how the room was strangely closed; but his lordship pooh poohed, and said something must have gone wrong with the clumsy old lock.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
Jordan, to his listeners, pooh poohed at the idea that he was "sore" on his own account.
From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
