pooh poohint.n.

Brit.

/ˌp(h)uː ˈp(h)uː/, U.S.

/ˌpu ˈpu/ (except in sense B. 3)Brit.

/ˈpuː puː/, U.S.

/ˈpu ˌpu/

Forms: 1600s– pooh pooh, 1800s– poo poo.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: pooh int.

Etymology: Reduplication of pooh int. Compare reduplicated forms at poh int.

A. int.

= pooh int. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]

prut?c1300

trutc1330

truptc1380

ahaa1400

tushc1440

puff1481

quotha?1520

ah?1526

ta ha1528

twish1577

blurt1592

gip1592

pish1592

tantia1593

(God) bless (also save) the mark1593

phah1593

marry come up1597

mew1600

pooh1600

marry muff1602

pew waw1602

ptish1602

pew1604

push1605

pshaw1607

tuh1607

pea1608

poh1650

pooh pooh1694

hoity-toity1695

highty-tighty1699

quoz?1780

indeed1834

shuck1847

skidoo1906

suck1913

zut1915

yah boo1921

pooey1927

ptui1930

snubs1934

upya1941

yah boo sucks1980

1694 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 11 Pooh, pooh, nothing at all, I only rally'd with you.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. vii. 276 ‘Pooh! pooh!’ cries the Squire, ‘all Stuff and Nonsense.’

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xii. 145 Pooh, pooh!.. Never mind that.

1902 Longman's Mag. Sept. 146 The sceptic will say ‘Pooh pooh!’ (at least on paper—nobody ever says ‘Pooh pooh!’).

2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 May e1 Two or three years ago, dot-commers said ‘Pooh-pooh, we don't need these skills.’ But now everyone needs these skills.

B. n.

1. An utterance of ‘pooh pooh!’

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance

blurt1579

puff1579

pish1593

pooh1593

tush1600

hiss1602

mew1606

pshaw1712

pooh pooh1798

poof1864

razoo1888

raspberry1890

razz1917

razzberry1920

Bronx cheer1929

big deal1949

1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher I. 6 Before the Doctor had vented his pshaws and pooh poohs.

1863 Continental Monthly Dec. 705/2 Many of these little things the young soldier will bring home with him, in spite of the pooh-poohs of practical parents.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. ii. 29 Dartrey blew his pooh-pooh on feminine suspicions.

1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words iii. 48 In the dawn of language, the bow-wows and the pooh-poohs and even the ding-dongs must have served man well.

1989 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder goes Forth in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 432/2 If there's one thing I've learnt in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh!

†2. A person who frequently utters ‘pooh pooh!’ Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > contemptuous person > one who expresses contempt vocally

pooh-pooher1841

pooh-poohist1861

pooh pooh1867

pisher1901

1867 Morning Star 6 Aug. 6/4 The Pooh-poohs think the rest of mankind was made for their pleasure and profit.

1875 O. W. Holmes Crime in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 326 This is the tribe of the Pooh-Poohs, so called from the leading expression of their vocabulary.

3. Chiefly Children's slang and nursery. Usually in form poo-poo. Faeces, excrement. Also as a count noun: a lump of excrement. to go poo-poo (also poo-poos): to defecate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]

dritea1000

to do one's filthheadc1300

shit?c1335

to go to siegec1400

scumbera1425

cack1436

to do one's easementa1438

to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440

skite1449

to do of one's needingsc1475

fen1486

dung1508

spurge1530

to cover his feet1535

lask1540

stool1540

to exonerate nature1542

file1564

fiant1575

cucka1605

wray1620

exonerate1631

excrement1632

to do one's ease1645

sir-reverence1665

excrementizec1670

nest1679

poop1689

move1699

defecate1837

crap1874

mire1918

to make a mess1928

mess1937

to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960

potty1972

to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973

pooh1975

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 401/2 Poo-poo, feces.

1976 M. Karapanou Kassandra & Wolf xvi. 26 Peter serves. Roast beef and carrots sauté. For me it's spinach, to go poopoo.

1988 Mother & Baby Apr. 63/3 Show her the nappy and tell her that she can do her wee-wee and poo-poo..in the potty instead of the nappy now that she is a big girl.

2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 25 June (Features section) 9 Daddy, I've done a poo poo!

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as pooh-pooh approach, †pooh-pooh expression nouns.

ΚΠ

1860 W. M. Thackeray Late Great Victories in Cornhill Mag. June 759 A Saturnine philosopher..has a pooh-pooh expression as the triumph passes.

1989 Lancet 25 Nov. 1249/1 When assessing a child or infant with fits, faints, and funny turns I (a generalist) usually adopt the pooh-pooh approach of Sir Robert Hutchison.

C2.

pooh-pooh theory n. the theory that language is a development of natural interjections (cf. bow-wow int. and n. 2b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of

pooh-pooh theory1861

bow-wow theory1864

symphonesis1872

nativism1892

ta-ta theory1930

sing-song theory1939

1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. ix. 352 These cries or interjections were represented as the natural and real beginnings of human speech... This is what I call the Interjectional, or Pooh-pooh, Theory.

1928 W. B. Pillsbury & C. L. Meader Psychol. of Lang. vii. 113 These theories have been nicknamed by their opponents the ‘bowwow theory’..the ‘pooh-pooh theory’..and..the ‘dingdong theory’.

2004 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 10 Jan. 47 Then there's the pooh-pooh theory, according to which people started by emitting instinctive sounds, caused by pain, anger, frustration or something similar.

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

单词	pooh pooh
释义	pooh poohint.n. Brit. /ˌp(h)uː ˈp(h)uː/, U.S. /ˌpu ˈpu/ (except in sense B. 3)Brit. /ˈpuː puː/, U.S. /ˈpu ˌpu/ Forms: 1600s– pooh pooh, 1800s– poo poo. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: pooh int. Etymology: Reduplication of pooh int. Compare reduplicated forms at poh int. A. int. = pooh int. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] prut?c1300 trutc1330 truptc1380 ahaa1400 tushc1440 puff1481 quotha?1520 ah?1526 ta ha1528 twish1577 blurt1592 gip1592 pish1592 tantia1593 (God) bless (also save) the mark1593 phah1593 marry come up1597 mew1600 pooh1600 marry muff1602 pew waw1602 ptish1602 pew1604 push1605 pshaw1607 tuh1607 pea1608 poh1650 pooh pooh1694 hoity-toity1695 highty-tighty1699 quoz?1780 indeed1834 shuck1847 skidoo1906 suck1913 zut1915 yah boo1921 pooey1927 ptui1930 snubs1934 upya1941 yah boo sucks1980 1694 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 11 Pooh, pooh, nothing at all, I only rally'd with you. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. vii. 276 ‘Pooh! pooh!’ cries the Squire, ‘all Stuff and Nonsense.’ View more context for this quotation 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xii. 145 Pooh, pooh!.. Never mind that. 1902 Longman's Mag. Sept. 146 The sceptic will say ‘Pooh pooh!’ (at least on paper—nobody ever says ‘Pooh pooh!’). 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 May e1 Two or three years ago, dot-commers said ‘Pooh-pooh, we don't need these skills.’ But now everyone needs these skills. B. n. 1. An utterance of ‘pooh pooh!’ ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance blurt1579 puff1579 pish1593 pooh1593 tush1600 hiss1602 mew1606 pshaw1712 pooh pooh1798 poof1864 razoo1888 raspberry1890 razz1917 razzberry1920 Bronx cheer1929 big deal1949 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher I. 6 Before the Doctor had vented his pshaws and pooh poohs. 1863 Continental Monthly Dec. 705/2 Many of these little things the young soldier will bring home with him, in spite of the pooh-poohs of practical parents. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. ii. 29 Dartrey blew his pooh-pooh on feminine suspicions. 1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words iii. 48 In the dawn of language, the bow-wows and the pooh-poohs and even the ding-dongs must have served man well. 1989 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder goes Forth in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 432/2 If there's one thing I've learnt in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh! †2. A person who frequently utters ‘pooh pooh!’ Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > contemptuous person > one who expresses contempt vocally pooh-pooher1841 pooh-poohist1861 pooh pooh1867 pisher1901 1867 Morning Star 6 Aug. 6/4 The Pooh-poohs think the rest of mankind was made for their pleasure and profit. 1875 O. W. Holmes Crime in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 326 This is the tribe of the Pooh-Poohs, so called from the leading expression of their vocabulary. 3. Chiefly Children's slang and nursery. Usually in form poo-poo. Faeces, excrement. Also as a count noun: a lump of excrement. to go poo-poo (also poo-poos): to defecate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)] dritea1000 to do one's filthheadc1300 shit?c1335 to go to siegec1400 scumbera1425 cack1436 to do one's easementa1438 to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440 skite1449 to do of one's needingsc1475 fen1486 dung1508 spurge1530 to cover his feet1535 lask1540 stool1540 to exonerate nature1542 file1564 fiant1575 cucka1605 wray1620 exonerate1631 excrement1632 to do one's ease1645 sir-reverence1665 excrementizec1670 nest1679 poop1689 move1699 defecate1837 crap1874 mire1918 to make a mess1928 mess1937 to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960 potty1972 to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973 pooh1975 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 401/2 Poo-poo, feces. 1976 M. Karapanou Kassandra & Wolf xvi. 26 Peter serves. Roast beef and carrots sauté. For me it's spinach, to go poopoo. 1988 Mother & Baby Apr. 63/3 Show her the nappy and tell her that she can do her wee-wee and poo-poo..in the potty instead of the nappy now that she is a big girl. 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 25 June (Features section) 9 Daddy, I've done a poo poo! Compounds C1. General attributive, as pooh-pooh approach, †pooh-pooh expression nouns. ΚΠ 1860 W. M. Thackeray Late Great Victories in Cornhill Mag. June 759 A Saturnine philosopher..has a pooh-pooh expression as the triumph passes. 1989 Lancet 25 Nov. 1249/1 When assessing a child or infant with fits, faints, and funny turns I (a generalist) usually adopt the pooh-pooh approach of Sir Robert Hutchison. C2. pooh-pooh theory n. the theory that language is a development of natural interjections (cf. bow-wow int. and n. 2b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of pooh-pooh theory1861 bow-wow theory1864 symphonesis1872 nativism1892 ta-ta theory1930 sing-song theory1939 1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. ix. 352 These cries or interjections were represented as the natural and real beginnings of human speech... This is what I call the Interjectional, or Pooh-pooh, Theory. 1928 W. B. Pillsbury & C. L. Meader Psychol. of Lang. vii. 113 These theories have been nicknamed by their opponents the ‘bowwow theory’..the ‘pooh-pooh theory’..and..the ‘dingdong theory’. 2004 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 10 Jan. 47 Then there's the pooh-pooh theory, according to which people started by emitting instinctive sounds, caused by pain, anger, frustration or something similar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.n.1694
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