poobah
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
Definition of poobah
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A person who holds multiple offices or positions of power at the same time.
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noun
- A person who holds multiple offices or positions of power at the same time.
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A leader or other important person.
“‘I said pooh-pooh,’ Duxmann Pooh Bah said.”
- A pompous, self-important person.
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Etymology
From Pooh-Bah, a comic character in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado (1885), formed as pooh + bah, both expressing contempt. The character of W. S. Gilbert's libretto is preceded by the character Pish-Tush-Pooh-Bah (described as “haughty”) in “King Borriah Bungalee Boo” (1866), one of the Bab Ballads, with pish and tush being two other terms of contempt.
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