pooh-bah
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- noun
- /ˈpuːˌbɑː/
- Offensive
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mandamás
- Don’t let yourself become a pooh-bah just because you got a new title.
- the grand pooh-bah
Examples
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The town council is run by a few local pooh-bahs who rarely listen to others.
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Ever since his promotion, Mark has acted like a pooh-bah around the office.
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The new manager is such a pooh-bah at the office.
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Why does he act like a pooh-bah all the time?
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At the meeting, she acted like the pooh-bah, insisting that her ideas were the only ones worth considering.
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The company's pooh-bah was known for his pompous speeches that often bored the audience.
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Despite holding no official title, he considered himself the pooh-bah of office politics, dictating who was in and who was out.
Synonyms
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A person who talks too much and brags about themselves
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8.2
A person who thinks only about themselves and always wants attention
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7.7
A person who talks a lot about themselves to show off
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A person who talks too proudly about their successes or things they own
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A person who acts too proud and tries to seem important
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A person who talks as if they are always right
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9.9
A person who acts very important and looks down on others
A joking name for a person who has great power in a group
A person who acts like a ruler and expects others to obey
A person who thinks they are better than other people
A person who is too proud and thinks they know more than others
Antonyms
How Self-Important
- Offensive
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- Offensive
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- Informal
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7.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pooh-bah comes from a funny character in the comic opera The Mikado who held many official jobs, and his name joins the scorn sounds pooh and bah, like saying 'I don't like this' or 'I don't respect this'. So a pooh-bah today is someone who thinks they are very important and acts pompous.