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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

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Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (transitive) To dismiss idly, with derision or contempt.

Esimerkit

  • When he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd you—would have pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!
  • In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth.
  • Pooh-poohing the IPCC's science has been one line of attack by Bush's backers.
  • Clinton haters will pooh-pooh all of these acknowledgements as the index of a compulsive sociability that knows no limits and upholds no standards, a psychic necessity we should not make into a moral virtue.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektipooh-poohed
Imperfektipooh-poohed
Partisiipin preesenspooh-poohing
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenspooh-poohs

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