pooh-pooh
Example Sentences
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“Modern practices on the one hand pooh pooh this, as scandalous and outrageous and quackery,” Dr. Moore said.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2021
To be sure! pooh pooh, what have I been thinking of!
From No Thoroughfare by Collins, Wilkie
It was in vain, however; he expressed a firm belief that we should meet with some disaster on our voyage and I dropped the subject with a "pooh pooh."
From The Last Cruise of the Saginaw by Read, George H.
But how haughtily he blows out his cheeks, pooh, pooh, pooh; how high he holds his head!
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall
Oh, pooh, pooh, pooh! she is not going to die, lad.
From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
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