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
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.
To be sure! pooh pooh, what have I been thinking of!
From No Thoroughfare by Collins, Wilkie
Oh, pooh, pooh, pooh! she is not going to die, lad.
From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
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