Definitions for Pooh-Bah

Pooh-Bah Pooh Bah

Spelling: [poo bah]
IPA: /ˈpu ˌbɑ/

Pooh-Bah is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Pooh-Bah (-abhhoop).

Definitions for Pooh-Bah

noun

  1. a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
  2. a leader, authority, or other important person:
  3. a pompous, self-important person.

Origin of Pooh-Bah

First recorded in 1880-85; after a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, who holds all of the high offices of state simultaneously and uses them for personal gain

Examples for Pooh-Bah

“pooh-bah will do a better job than I could,” Fay assured him.

A corporation is not a commercial pooh-bah, divided into unrelated sections.

The bystanders looked at one another blankly, and at last the concentrated gaze fell upon the pooh-bah of the town.

pooh-bah finished page two and began to race through page three.

Fay sighed and gave simultaneously with pooh-bah the now-familiar triple-jointed shrug.

Clearly the boss tickler (which was how they thought of pooh-bah) led an energetic life.

pooh-bah, it seems that the festivities in connection with my approaching marriage must last a week.

But pooh-bah declares "I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition."

Every one of us, or almost every one of us, does in reality fulfil almost as many offices as pooh-bah.

Great should be the gratitude of passage-selling Combines to pooh-bah; and they ought to cherish his memory when he dies.

Word Value for Pooh-Bah
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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