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pooh-bah

[poo bah] / ˈpu ˌbɑ /
NOUN
bigwig
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
Antonyms




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NFL instant replay pooh-bah Mark Butterworth later explained the ruling thusly:

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Taken at a time when the president-elect was famed as a billionaire real estate pooh-bah, it served as the cover image for his autobiographical book “Trump: Surviving at the Top.”

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2016

Even Dennis Basso, the grand pooh-bah of fur for 30 years, appears to be diversifying.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2013

They’re like a series of Monty Python skits, with Rembrandt playing all the parts: metrosexual masher with puffy Titian sleeves; nerdy accountant hoarding his receipts; saber-wielding pooh-bah with a tam-o’-shanter crown.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2011

It was Peggy McNutt, the fish-eyed pooh-bah of Millville, who was represented sitting on his front porch engaged in painting his wooden foot.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)




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