poh, int.
(pəʊ)
Also 7–8 pough, 8 pogh, 9 po.
An ejaculation of contemptuous rejection. (Cf. pooh.)
| 1679 M. Prance Narr. Pop. Plot 13 Pough, Pough, said Sr. Edmundbury, refusing at first to trouble himself. 1708 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii i, Sir Fran. For what? Marpl. Po'gh, for a hundred Things. c 1738 Swift Lit. Ho. at Castleknock Wks. 1755 IV. i. 306 Poh! fellow, keep not such a pother. 1787 Minor 174 Pogh; thought I, why should I fear a man. 1820 Cobbett Gram. Eng. Lang. §210 Poh! Never think a man either learned or good merely on account of his being called a Doctor. 1824 Galt Rothelan i. vii, Po! yours are as the pebble stones on the seashore to the jewels that may be bought in Ghent. |