(interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) But instead of investigating it, they just pooh-poohed it and I never heard anything about the tape again.
(2) If it were a choice between Manchester United and Tottenham, he would choose the former, and the knowledge of this might explain why some employees at White Hart Lane had started to pooh-pooh the idea of Van Gaal coming to them even before Moyes' dismissal.
(3) He is happy there" - considering the lack of enthusiasm with which his client moves from the edge of the area to the six-yard box, it's no surprise that Dimitar Berbatov's Mr 15% Emil Dantchev has pooh-poohed the notion of the Bulgarian setting off for Bayern Munich or AC Milan.
(4) Pooh-poohing pigeon I’m sure Finns won’t appreciate a lecture from a citizen of a country that wiped out its wolves four centuries ago, and I was reminded of our own attitude towards killing wild animals outside my local butcher’s the other day.
(5) Kazan felt sex tapes had added something different, but Radcliffe pooh-poohed the theory.
(6) BBC Worldwide has sold an 85% stake in BBC Audiobooks, which publishes titles including Richard Burton's Under Milk Wood, Winnie the Pooh and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a deal understood to be worth at least £10m.
(7) What you are seeing is a guy who in public everybody pooh-poohs, but in private every guy says: that's the life I want.
(8) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
(9) Berlin is already pooh-poohing the notion, unwilling to "mutualise" liability for other country's savers or banks any time soon.
(10) When the No Turning Back group (of Tory young Turks such as me) urged her to adopt our idea for grant-maintained schools, she pooh-poohed our political naivety (before eventually adopting the policy).
(11) FCO ministers in replies to me and other MPs have also pooh-poohed the idea of actually doing something to hold Russia to account over Magnitsky's death.
(12) Great for helping with imaginary games, playing Pooh sticks, building things."
(13) From the pile of canvases stacked up on the trestle table, and hung from its metal framework, the buyer had selected Kids on Guns – two sweet little children standing on a hillock of guns and bombs – and Pooh Bear, a version of AA Milne's winsome creation sitting weeping under a tree, honey pot (labelled with a dollar sign) discarded and his foot stuck in a bear trap.
(14) Funny and likable, even when he errs it's cute, like a shaved Winnie the Pooh accidentally eating all the honey.
(15) Saturday 8 September 2001 found Simon and Elizabeth Turner in John Lewis trying to decide whether, in addition to the bottles, the bedding and the baby monitors, their imminent first child really needed a complete Winnie the Pooh dining set.
(16) It's natural to pooh-pooh spring stats, especially for a pitcher of Lincecum's caliber, but after a wild 2012, eyebrows were raised in Scottsdale , and so this first start would be vital.
(17) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be… the owl from Winnie the Pooh.
(18) One of the best scenes in Saving Mr Banks shows Travers, played by Thompson, overwhelmed with horror to find that her LA hotel room has been stuffed with soft cuddly toys from the Disney Corporation's celluloid bestiary, including Winnie-the-Pooh.
(19) For younger kids there’s a Winnie-the-Pooh-themed 100 Aker Wood and an indoor play barn for rainy days.
(20) Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was fourth, and Winnie the Pooh fifth, with the top 10 rounded out by Alice in Wonderland , The BFG , The Wind in the Willows , the Mr Men series and a third Dahl title, Matilda .
Poot
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Poots added: "The only safe advice is not to use them."
(2) More than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Poots to resign because of his intransigence on gay rights, and assembly members from the Ulster Unionist party and Sinn Féin have criticised his stance.
(3) The presence of religious zealots such as Poots in government is a direct consequence of the peace process.
(4) The nicknames have helped build his "regular guy" image, but Pootie-Poot sounds more like a throwback to the preppy vocabulary of his father, who was famous for such phrases as "I'm in deep doo-doo".
(5) At a historic summit in Moscow this week, President George Bush will mark what he claims is the final putting to rest of the cold war, by shaking hands with his new best friend, Pootie-Poot.
(6) The fact that Poots can face criticism for his views from both unionists and nationalists may be progress in itself.
(7) Poots added: "Over the past couple of years there has been growing concern about what have been inaccurately labelled as legal highs.
(8) Hence Poots, a man born and raised in the Ulster Free Presbyterian church, a man who believes Ulster should be British, deserves credence.
(9) Critics of the minister from the political world and gay rights campaigners in Northern Ireland have claimed Poots' maintenance of the ban is due to his born-again Christian beliefs and the DUP's longstanding hostility to gay people and other sexual minorities.
(10) • Interview: Sean Ellis The Bifa winners Best international independent film – Blue is the Warmest Colour The Raindance award – The Machine Most promising newcomer – Chloe Pirrie for The Shell Best British short – Z1 Best supporting actor – Ben Mendelsohn for Starred Up Special jury prize – Sixteen Films and Friends Best technical achievement – Amy Hubbard for casting on The Selfish Giant Best supporting actress – Imogen Poots for The Look of Love Best achievement in production – Metro Manila Best British documentary – Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer The Variety award – Paul Greengrass Best actor – James McAvoy Best screenplay – Steven Knight - Locke The Douglas Hickox award – Paul Wright for For Those in Peril Best actress – Lindsay Duncan for Le Week-end Best director – Sean Ellis for Metro Manila Richard Harris award – Julie Walters Best British independent film – Metro Manila
(11) Imogen Poots and Dominic Cooper go along for the ride.
(12) Poots' rivals in the Ulster Unionist party have challenged him to reveal what legal advice he received from Northern Ireland's attorney general John Larkin over his stance on the ban.
(13) The Democratic Unionist minister Edwin Poots and Northern Ireland's attorney general, John Larkin, have won an information rights tribunal that allows them to keep the information secret.
(14) Edwin Poots, Northern Ireland's health minister, is almost comically unsuited for his position.
(15) Poots also ended up in court for upholding a ban on gay men giving blood and, in a separate case, objecting to gay couples adopting.
(16) Poots is against gay couples adopting, and is attempting to maintain a ban on gay men giving blood .
(17) That does not bode well for the weeks ahead and, despite an appealing cast of Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper and Imogen Poots, the feeling remains that the marketing could have done with a little zest.
(18) But Poots is still special: there's almost something admirable about his open stance on his views in a time when even his spiritual leader Ian Paisley was willing to put a lid on it for the sake of power.
(19) Matthew McDermott, the policy manager at the Belfast-based Rainbow Project, said the tribunal's decision was "hugely disappointing" given that the high court in Northern Ireland had ruled earlier this year that the ban had been imposed without lawful authority and that Poots was guilty of breaching the ministerial code at Stormont.
(20) At times of tension between the two countries, we are told, Mr Bush is known to tell his staff: "Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone."