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
It is, therefore, useless to laugh at or pooh pooh the trouble, or suggest that the sufferer is only humbugging.
From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce
“Oh, pooh, pooh, nonsense, my pet,” he cried, looking at her beautiful pensive face proudly; “don’t mind that; I’m glad of it.”
From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville
To be sure! pooh pooh, what have I been thinking of!
From No Thoroughfare by Collins, Wilkie
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
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