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What does pooh-pooh mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pooh-pooh? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.
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Certain of the white residents called him pooh-pooh too, which hurt more deeply.
Here, for instance, I don't like the way you talk to me, the way you pooh-pooh my hospitality.
That was the sort of apparition that no guilty man would dare to pooh-pooh.
But if you know collies, you will think twice before you pooh-pooh it as rankly impossible.
Lancaster, whenever he noticed her dejection, was inclined to pooh-pooh it.
After a hearty meal, the girl felt inclined to pooh-pooh her fancies of half an hour before.

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