Pooh Bah

or Pooh-Ba, poo·bah

[ poo -bah ]

/ ˈpu ˌbɑ /

noun (often lowercase)

a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.

a leader, authority, or other important person: one of the pooh bahs of the record industry.

a pompous, self-important person.

Origin of Pooh Bah

First recorded in 1880–85; after a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, who holds all of the high offices of state simultaneously and uses them for personal gain

Words nearby Pooh Bah

poodle, poodle-faker, poof, poofter, pooh, Pooh Bah, pooh-pooh, pook, pool, Poole, pooled serum

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Example sentences from the Web for Pooh Bah

Fay sighed and gave simultaneously with Pooh-Bah the now-familiar triple-jointed shrug.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths|Fritz Reuter Leiber
But Pooh-Bah declares "I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition."
The Secrets of a Savoyard|Henry A. Lytton
Pooh-Bah agrees on condition that he shall be "grossly insulted" with "cash down."
The Secrets of a Savoyard|Henry A. Lytton
This is what Pooh-Bah calls "corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and unconvincing narrative."
The Romance of Words (4th ed.)|Ernest Weekley

“Pooh-Bah will do a better job than I could,” Fay assured him.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths|Fritz Reuter Leiber

British Dictionary definitions for Pooh Bah

Pooh-Bah

/ (ˈpuːˈbɑː) /

noun

a pompous self-important official holding several offices at once and fulfilling none of them

Word Origin for Pooh-Bah

C19: after the character, the Lord-High-Everything-Else, in The Mikado (1885), a light opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for Pooh Bah

Pooh-Bah

A self-important person of high position and great influence. Pooh-Bah is a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado; his title is Lord-High-Everything-Else.

单词	pooh bah
释义	Pooh Bah or Pooh-Ba, poo·bah [ poo -bah ] / ˈpu ˌbɑ / noun (often lowercase) a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance. a leader, authority, or other important person: one of the pooh bahs of the record industry. a pompous, self-important person. Origin of Pooh Bah First recorded in 1880–85; after a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, who holds all of the high offices of state simultaneously and uses them for personal gain Words nearby Pooh Bah poodle, poodle-faker, poof, poofter, pooh, Pooh Bah, pooh-pooh, pook, pool, Poole, pooled serum Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for Pooh Bah Fay sighed and gave simultaneously with Pooh-Bah the now-familiar triple-jointed shrug. The Creature from Cleveland Depths\|Fritz Reuter Leiber But Pooh-Bah declares "I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition." The Secrets of a Savoyard\|Henry A. Lytton Pooh-Bah agrees on condition that he shall be "grossly insulted" with "cash down." The Secrets of a Savoyard\|Henry A. Lytton This is what Pooh-Bah calls "corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and unconvincing narrative." The Romance of Words (4th ed.)\|Ernest Weekley “Pooh-Bah will do a better job than I could,” Fay assured him. The Creature from Cleveland Depths\|Fritz Reuter Leiber British Dictionary definitions for Pooh Bah Pooh-Bah / (ˈpuːˈbɑː) / noun a pompous self-important official holding several offices at once and fulfilling none of them Word Origin for Pooh-Bah C19: after the character, the Lord-High-Everything-Else, in The Mikado (1885), a light opera by Gilbert and Sullivan Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for Pooh Bah Pooh-Bah A self-important person of high position and great influence. Pooh-Bah is a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado; his title is Lord-High-Everything-Else. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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