pooh

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So smart and capable people will pooh-pooh the value of college because they don't understand what it's doing for them.

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Quick take

(intransitive) To say "pooh".

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pooh gathered in one view.

verb

(intransitive) To say "pooh".

noun

(countable) An instance of saying "pooh".

verb

(transitive) To say "pooh" to.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pooh.

verb

(intransitive) To say "pooh".

noun

(countable) An instance of saying "pooh".

verb

(transitive) To say "pooh" to.

noun

(uncountable, childish) Alternative form of poo: feces. [(uncountable, childish) Feces.]

Example sentences

So smart and capable people will pooh-pooh the value of college because they don't understand what it's doing for them.

Even if you did it with a meal kit rather than shopping for ingredients yourself, who am I to pooh pooh that.

Lots of crazy ideas are pooh-pooh'd because, well, they're crazy.

Apple is good at their marketing; pooh-poohing ideas they don't currently support is part of their reality distortion field.

At the moment, the top-rated post pooh-poohs purely technological solutions and says the OP should exercise.

Apple has a habit of pooh-poohing any idea that they don't currently support right up until the moment that they do support that idea.

) There's many more incidents to this list, but it's typical Apple behavior to pooh-pooh things about competitor products or features right up until the point that they ship them.

[0] Yeah, the author pooh poohs at examples like this, but I think they're really particularly clear.

I'd imagine Disney makes plenty on merchandise related to their hoary old characters, particularly Pooh Bear, and not so much the movies/animation/wizened content like Fantasia or Steamboat Willie.

You can pooh-pooh over how they have lousy conditions and are poor and riot because of that, but the fact is that they get everything they need from the state (food, shelter, spending money, schooling, healthcare), and also there has always been poor people in sweden and they haven't had problems with eg.

Quote examples

Geeks tend to pooh-pooh this theory because it's associated with the "squishy" field of stage and screen drama.

What else has been said here that "pooh-pooh's" female contributions?

I am amazed at how little credit has been given women and how easily a male-dominated board like this "pooh-pooh's" the female contribution.

You can poo-pooh security through obscurity but we're all relying on the "infeasibility" of defeating various systems.

Proper noun examples

Pooh BBC, linkbaity headline and no link to the study?

Apple has a dominant market position in high-end smartphones (they make 90% of all smartphone profits) and they are using this to leverage other markets in ways that make Steve Ballmer look like Winnie the Pooh.