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Pooh Bah
[ poo bah ]
noun
- a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give bureaucratic importance.
- a leader, authority, or other important person:
one of the Pooh Bahs of the record industry.
- a pompous, self-important person.
Pooh-Bah
/ ˈpuːˈbɑː /
noun
- a pompous self-important official holding several offices at once and fulfilling none of them
Pooh-Bah
- A self-important person of high position and great influence. Pooh-Bah is a character in Gilbert and Sullivan 's operetta ; his title is Lord-High-Everything-Else.
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Example Sentences
The general housework servant has already been referred to as a Pooh Bah in petticoats.
But even as the Tinkletown Pooh-Bah posed in restful supremacy there were rushing down upon him affairs of the epoch-making kind.
The bystanders looked at one another blankly, and at last the concentrated gaze fell upon the Pooh-Bah of the town.
Every one of us, or almost every one of us, does in reality fulfil almost as many offices as Pooh-Bah.
We have allowed him to become a sort of autocrat, a golfing Pooh-Bah, a self-appointed committee of one with arbitrary powers.
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