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单词 pooh bah
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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.
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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).
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