pooh-pooh
英 ['pu:'pu:]
美
- vt. 藐视
- vi. 发呸声
- int. 呸！
英英释义
- 1. express contempt about
- 2. reject with contempt;
- "She spurned his advances"
实用场景例句
- We could not pooh - pooh these things - they had an evil look.
- 我们对这类事情可不能大意--看样子是有点儿跷蹊.
辞典例句
- MODERN, Western medicine tends to pooh - pooh its herbal cousin.
- 进入现代,西医对自己远亲兄弟一直抱着轻视的态度.
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英文词源
- pooh-pooh (v.)
- "to dismiss lightly and contemptuously," 1827, a slang reduplication of dismissive expression pooh. Among the many 19th century theories of the origin of language was the Pooh-pooh theory (1860), which held that language grew from natural expressions of surprise, joy, pain, or grief.
词态变化
第三人称单数: pooh-poohs;过去式: pooh-poohed;过去分词: pooh-poohed;现在分词: pooh-poohing;