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pooh-pooh
verb
to belittle someone or something; to dismiss someone or something as inconsequential UK, 1827- And he pooh-poohed her angry opinion that the stuff was too old for me. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 294, 1953
- The kids all pooh-poohed her and told her not to worry so much about a fifty-dollar watch[.] — Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show, p. 79, 1966
- Barry Norman himself pooh-poohed both movies[.] — Danny King, The Bank Robber Diaries, p. 188, 2002
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