poobah

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who holds multiple offices or positions of power at the same time.
  2. A leader or other important person.
    — ‘I said pooh-pooh,’ Duxmann Pooh Bah said.
  3. A pompous, self-important person.

词形变化

poobahs plural pooh bah alternative pooh-bah alternative poo bah alternative poo-bah alternative Poo-Bah alternative Pooh-Bah alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
grand poobah
相关词
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词源

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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