Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pooh
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int. & n. --int. expressing impatience or contempt. --n. sl. excrement. Etymology: imit. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ха!; фи!; фу!; тьфу! (выражает пренебрежение, презрение) pooh, is that all! —- ну и ну!; ничего себе! 2. простореч. утомить, вымотать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1593, "a 'vocal gesture' expressing the action of puffing anything away" [O.E.D.], first attested in Hamlet Act I, Scene III, where Polonius addresses Ophelia with, "Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, / Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. / Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?" But the "vocal gesture" is perhaps ancient. The slang reduplicated verb pooh-pooh "to dismiss lightly and contemptuously" is attested from 1827. Among the many 19th century theories of the origin of language was the Pooh-pooh theory (1860), which held that language grew from natural expressions of surprise, joy, pain, or grief. Pooh as baby-talk for "excrement" is from 1950s. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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