pooh-bah
Example Sentences
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NFL instant replay pooh-bah Mark Butterworth later explained the ruling thusly:
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
And the grand pooh-bah of the contemporary musical movie score, Lin-Manuel Miranda, provides a spellbinding soundtrack of songs combining salsa, bachata and hip-hop played with traditional folk instruments from Colombia.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
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)
