Pooh Bahn.

Brit.

/ˌpuːˈbɑː/, U.S.

/ˈpuˌbɑ/

Forms: 1800s– Pooh-Bah, 1800s– Pooh Bah, 1900s– Poo-Bah, 1900s– Poobah, 1900s– Poohbah. Also with lower-case initials.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pooh Bah.

Etymology: < Pooh Bah, the name of a character in William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan's operetta The Mikado (1885). Compare pooh int. and bah int.

A person who holds many offices at the same time; a person or body with much influence or many functions; (also in extended use) a pompous or self-important person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person

bug1536

bladder1579

God almighty1632

cockalorumc1796

his nibs1821

prima donna1834

fly on the (coach-)wheel1840

high muck-a-muck1856

nobs1877

high muckety-muck1882

muckamuck1883

Pooh Bah1886

prima ballerina1923

I AM1926

muckety-muck1927

Pooter1957

cheese1965

1885 World (N.Y.) 14 Sept. 4/4 It is thought that the Queen will..create him Prince Pooh-Bah, thus making him Lord High Every Thing Else at once.]

1886 Manitoba Daily Free Press 16 Feb. 2/2 Sir John Macdonald is the great Canadian Pooh-bah. He is the whole Central Government, the leader of the Ontario Opposition, and Premier of Manitoba.

1888 L. D. Powles Land of Pink Pearl 77 To the first of these [vacancies] the Governor appointed an English jeweller, named Brown, to the second one of the local ‘Pooh Bahs!’ named Crawford.

1949 F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay 163 ‘I do a bit of painting, myself; enough to take the boys in art. You see, we're so short-handed—.’ ‘Good God! You must be the Pooh Bah of this school.’

1972 Publishers Weekly 13 Nov. 16/1 His first book..was a tough, illuminating picture of what happens in the surgical wards of a metropolitan hospital, and it did not exactly endear him to the pooh-bahs of medicine.

1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 20/4 Doug Mulray has pleased the Channel 7 poo-bahs so much they are extending the season of his Saturday night talk show.

Derivatives

Pooh-ˈBahism n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun]

importance1607

self-importance1727

self-consequence1753

consequence1791

consequentiality1820

consequentialness1828

prima donnaship1889

Pooh-Bahism1892

prima donnaism1931

1892 Adjuster (San Francisco) Jan. 3/2 If the tone of that journal could be changed so as to show a little less of self-sufficiency, and ‘Pooh-Bahism’ generally.

1930 W. P. Morrell Brit. Colonial Policy xiii. 314 The complexity of the constitution was to be reduced by a kind of licensed Pooh-Bahism.

1960 W. Y. Elliott in Secretary of State v. 115 The price of this ‘Pooh-Bahism’ is sometimes a neglect of the Presidency itself.

1998 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 31 Oct. 3 a Lesson in pooh-bahism. A perceptive observer of officialdom sent this Gazette ‘Six Phases of a Project’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pooh bah
释义	Pooh Bahn. Brit. /ˌpuːˈbɑː/, U.S. /ˈpuˌbɑ/ Forms: 1800s– Pooh-Bah, 1800s– Pooh Bah, 1900s– Poo-Bah, 1900s– Poobah, 1900s– Poohbah. Also with lower-case initials. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pooh Bah. Etymology: < Pooh Bah, the name of a character in William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan's operetta The Mikado (1885). Compare pooh int. and bah int. A person who holds many offices at the same time; a person or body with much influence or many functions; (also in extended use) a pompous or self-important person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person bug1536 bladder1579 God almighty1632 cockalorumc1796 his nibs1821 prima donna1834 fly on the (coach-)wheel1840 high muck-a-muck1856 nobs1877 high muckety-muck1882 muckamuck1883 Pooh Bah1886 prima ballerina1923 I AM1926 muckety-muck1927 Pooter1957 cheese1965 1885 World (N.Y.) 14 Sept. 4/4 It is thought that the Queen will..create him Prince Pooh-Bah, thus making him Lord High Every Thing Else at once.] 1886 Manitoba Daily Free Press 16 Feb. 2/2 Sir John Macdonald is the great Canadian Pooh-bah. He is the whole Central Government, the leader of the Ontario Opposition, and Premier of Manitoba. 1888 L. D. Powles Land of Pink Pearl 77 To the first of these [vacancies] the Governor appointed an English jeweller, named Brown, to the second one of the local ‘Pooh Bahs!’ named Crawford. 1949 F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay 163 ‘I do a bit of painting, myself; enough to take the boys in art. You see, we're so short-handed—.’ ‘Good God! You must be the Pooh Bah of this school.’ 1972 Publishers Weekly 13 Nov. 16/1 His first book..was a tough, illuminating picture of what happens in the surgical wards of a metropolitan hospital, and it did not exactly endear him to the pooh-bahs of medicine. 1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 20/4 Doug Mulray has pleased the Channel 7 poo-bahs so much they are extending the season of his Saturday night talk show. Derivatives Pooh-ˈBahism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] importance1607 self-importance1727 self-consequence1753 consequence1791 consequentiality1820 consequentialness1828 prima donnaship1889 Pooh-Bahism1892 prima donnaism1931 1892 Adjuster (San Francisco) Jan. 3/2 If the tone of that journal could be changed so as to show a little less of self-sufficiency, and ‘Pooh-Bahism’ generally. 1930 W. P. Morrell Brit. Colonial Policy xiii. 314 The complexity of the constitution was to be reduced by a kind of licensed Pooh-Bahism. 1960 W. Y. Elliott in Secretary of State v. 115 The price of this ‘Pooh-Bahism’ is sometimes a neglect of the Presidency itself. 1998 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 31 Oct. 3 a Lesson in pooh-bahism. A perceptive observer of officialdom sent this Gazette ‘Six Phases of a Project’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886
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