POOHPOOH Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

pooh-pooh

verb

variants also pooh

as in to dismiss

informal to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true They pooh-poohed my suggestion. He pooh-poohed the idea that the house was haunted.

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Recent Examples of pooh-pooh One could be forgiven to pooh-pooh yet another play that lays out William Shakespeare’s bona fides as a hip-hop icon, the original bar spitter who beefed with plenty of his contemporaries while dropping sick flows all over Elizabethan England. —

David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026 In Cleveland, see Jimmy Haslam scare off quality candidates and then pooh-pooh fresh faces brave enough to want to work for him. —

Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026 LaRoche tried to pooh-pooh the notion, and certainly did not wish Agent McGee to alarm his wife. —

Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Apr. 2025 But weather forecasters typically pooh-pooh their predictions. —

Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025 National Weather Service debunks woolly bear forecasting abilities Of course, the National Weather Service has come along to pooh-pooh the woolly bear's winter foresight, with its science and facts. —

Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024 No wonder his officers pooh-pooh Haiti’s gangs as amateurs compared to their previous foes, like Al Shabaab – though the al Qaeda affiliate hasn’t been entirely vanquished back home in Kenya. —

Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024

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As part of her agreement to plead guilty, prosecutors will dismiss four felony counts of perjury, procurement or false or forged document to be filed, and two counts of not being entitled to vote in an election.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Though often dismissed as bubblegum soul, the early Jackson 5 hits were intricate and infectious.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026