- vt. 使疲倦
- int. 呸（輕視之聲）
- n. (Pooh)人名；(泰)樸
暢通詞匯
助記提示
1. pooh, poop: "tired," perhaps imitative of the sound of heavy breathing from exhaustion.
2. pooh, poo, poop: "excrement," a children's euphemism, probably of imitative origin.
3. pooh: "a 'vocal gesture' expressing the action of puffing anything away", perhaps of echoic origin. natural exclamation.
4. 電影：小熊維尼: Winnie the Pooh.
中文詞源
英文詞源
- pooh
- 1590s, "a 'vocal gesture' expressing the action of puffing anything away" [OED], first attested in Hamlet Act I, Scene III, where Polonius addresses Ophelia with, "Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl, / Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. / Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?" But the "vocal gesture" is perhaps ancient.
雙語例句
- 1. In the past he has pooh-poohed suggestions that he might succeed Isaacs.
- 過去他對自己會接替艾薩克斯之說嗤之以鼻。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. " Pooh!'Ways and means '?
- “ 對付的方法? 什么!
來自子夜部分
- 3. We could not pooh - pooh these things - they had an evil look.
- 我們對這類事情可不能大意--看樣子是有點兒蹺蹊.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Pooh! This meat is rotten.
- 噯呀! 這肉臭啦.
來自辭典例句
- 5. They pooh - poohed our scheme for raising money.
- 他們對我們的籌款方案嗤之以鼻.
來自辭典例句