pooh

• vt.疲れさせる
• プー（軽蔑の音）
• n.（プー）人の名前；（タイ語）公園

嫌悪感を表す擬音語。

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.

1. In the past he has pooh -poohed suggestions that he might succeed Isaacs.

過去、彼は自分がアイザックの後を継ぐという説を鼻で笑っていた。

2. " Pooh !'Ways and means '？

「対処方法？なに！

3.We could not pooh - pooh these things-they had an evil look.

私たちはこのようなことを油断してはいけない--少しうさんくさいようだ。

4. Pooh ！This meat is rotten.

げっ！この肉は臭いよ。

5.They pooh -poohed our scheme for raising money.

彼らは私たちの資金調達案を鼻で笑っている。