| 词汇 | pooh-pooh |
| 词源 | pooh-pooh. Pooh-pooh is a reduplication of pooh, which is probably “a vocal gesture expressing the action of puffing or blowing anything away” and is first recorded in Hamlet, as “puh” (“Affection, puh. You speak like a greene girl.”) By the early 19th century we find pooh-pooh being used to mean “to express contempt or disdain for, to make light of.” So common was the interjection pooh-pooh in the 19th century that a pooh- pooh meant “one addicted to using this expression.” |
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