"Pooh-pooh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Like all timid persons, he took refuge in a moody silence Others found delight in the most ordinary amusements Sensitiveness and disposition to self-blame Women: they are more bitter than death Yield to their customs, and not pooh-pooh their amusements You must be pleased ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Immortals of the French Academy • David Widger
... pooh-pooh everything," said Lasse despondingly, "for you've time and years before you. But I'm beginning to get old, and I've no one to trouble ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... like a book Upon the pooh-pooh tree, And now and then he takes a look At you and me, At me ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for aught one cares. Int. no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge! bosh! humbug! fiddlestick[obs3], fiddlestick end[obs3]! fiddlededee! never mind! n'importe[Fr]! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... "The children—pooh-pooh! He forgave her for the sake of convenience—and chiefly because he could do as he liked after that. You can see for yourself how he treats her. When all is said and done, she is but little better than his servant; you know as well as I do ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler
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