pooh-pooh in English

verb

1

dismiss (an idea or suggestion) as being foolish or impractical.

until recently, this idea was pooh-poohed by the scientific community

synonyms: dismiss, reject, spurn, rebuff, wave aside, disregard, discount, play down, make light of, belittle, deride, mock, scorn, scoff at, sneer at

verb

• dismiss, reject, spurn, rebuff, wave aside, disregard, discount, play down, make light of, belittle, deride, mock, scorn, scoff at, sneer at
• spurn, disdain, turn down, freeze off, reject, scorn

Use "pooh-pooh" in a sentence

1. And when Lionel started his bakery, the French pooh- pooh- ed it.

2. And when Lionel started his bakery, the French pooh-pooh-ed it.

3. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.

4. Water intoxication is something that many people pooh-pooh as nonsense, but here is absolute proof it exists.

5. She has got it all wrong, but then, too, I pooh-pooh her less grandly than I might.

6. There are people who gather in the spas and watering places of this world who pooh-pooh our fortune.

7. On the other hand though, scientists do not look fondly upon those who pooh-pooh scientific theories such as evolution as being just a theory.

8. "to dismiss lightly and Contemptuously," literally "to turn aside with an exclamation of 'pooh,'" 1827, a slang reduplication of dismissive expression pooh.Among the many 19th century theories of the origin of language was the Pooh-pooh theory (1860), which held that language grew from natural expressions of surprise, joy, pain, or grief.