pooh-bah
Example Sentences
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Driven from Peking, where he was Pooh Bah in 1922, by Super-Tuchun Wu, Chang seeks to oust Wu and President Tsao Kun and resume his lordly sway in the Capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
He doesn’t know it’s only Pooh Bah speaking from different corners of the stage.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Ayling has departed from our midst, and rumour says that he is leading a sort of Pooh Bah existence at Brigade Headquarters.
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
Behind the scenes, unknown to me, Pooh Bah had fainted, and one of his entrances had to be made by Pish Tush.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.
Descended from a primordial atomic globule, you know, like Pooh Bah.
From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
