Usually means: Dismiss as unworthy or trivial.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word pooh-pooh:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pooh-pooh: Merriam-Webster
  2. pooh-pooh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pooh-pooh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pooh-pooh, pooh-pooh: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pooh-pooh: Vocabulary.com
  6. pooh-pooh: Wordnik
  7. pooh-pooh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pooh-pooh: Wiktionary
  9. pooh-pooh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pooh-pooh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pooh-pooh: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pooh-pooh, pooh-pooh: Dictionary.com
  13. Pooh-pooh: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pooh-pooh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pooh-pooh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pooh-pooh: Rhymezone
  17. Pooh-pooh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pooh-pooh: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pooh-pooh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pooh-pooh: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pooh-pooh, pooh-pooh: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See pooh-poohed as well.)

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

Similar:
scorn, spurn, disdain, turn down, reject, freeze off, poohpooh, poopoo, poo poo, pooh, more...

Opposite:
endorse, support, approve, praise

Phrases:
pooh-pooh theory, more...

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Similar:
scorn, spurn, disdain, turn down, reject, freeze off, poohpooh, poopoo, poo poo, pooh, more...

Opposite:
endorse, support, approve, praise

Phrases:
pooh-pooh theory, more...



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