Pooh Bah
or pooh bah, Pooh-Ba, poo·bah
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.
Origin of Pooh Bah
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How to use Pooh Bah in a sentence
The general housework servant has already been referred to as a Pooh Bah in petticoats.
The Expert Maid-Servant | Cristine Terhune HerrickBut even as the Tinkletown Pooh-Bah posed in restful supremacy there were rushing down upon him affairs of the epoch-making kind.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheonThe bystanders looked at one another blankly, and at last the concentrated gaze fell upon the Pooh-Bah of the town.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheonEvery one of us, or almost every one of us, does in reality fulfil almost as many offices as Pooh-Bah.
Varied Types | G. K. ChestertonWe have allowed him to become a sort of autocrat, a golfing Pooh-Bah, a self-appointed committee of one with arbitrary powers.
Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan
British Dictionary definitions for Pooh-Bah
/ (ˈpuːˈbɑː) /
a pompous self-important official holding several offices at once and fulfilling none of them
Origin of Pooh-Bah
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Cultural definitions for Pooh-Bah
A self-important person of high position and great influence. Pooh-Bah is a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado; his title is Lord-High-Everything-Else.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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