pooh-pooh [
'pu:'pu:]
pooh-pooh
Pooh-pooh \Pooh`-pooh"\, v. t.
To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if
by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
- Other scholars doubt her claims that baby talk is universal or essential to learning language and pooh-pooh her methods.
- Dr. Charles Mahan, head HRS health officer, said that although St. Louis encephalitis is easily avoidable, "You can't pooh-pooh it.