pooh-pooh

2 definitions found

pooh-pooh - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pooh-pooh \Pooh`-pooh"\, v. t.
     To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if
     by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
     [1913 Webster]

pooh-pooh - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pooh-pooh
      v 1: express contempt about
      2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn:
         reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh,
         disdain, turn down]