pah
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of pah
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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The brain struggles with what's called "phonological processing" - being able to distinguish and manipulate sounds, like "bah" and "pah," that eventually have to be linked to written letters and words.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2011
One tap of the keyboard, and we were listening live: Oom pah pah, oom pah pah.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2010
He saws the air with an imaginary bow, sings in his rumbling borsch-accented voice: "Dom dom pah pah dom."
From Time Magazine Archive
No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge."
From Time Magazine Archive
From the Indian words pah, water, and rump, corn, "corn-water," i. e. a place where there is water enough to grow corn.
From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter
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