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English Dictionary: pooh-pooh by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pooh-pooh
v
  1. express contempt about
  2. reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
    Synonym(s): reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pooh-pooh \Pooh`-pooh"\, v. t.
      To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if
      by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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