Thread: Pooh-bah post: addressing two big SSNL questions.
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Old 03-29-2006, 07:23 PM
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Default Re: Pooh-bah post: addressing two big SSNL questions.
According to my copy of Dictionary of American Slang (3rd ed., Harper Collins):

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pooh-bah n by 1888 An important person; a self-important person; =BIG SHOT, HONCHO, VIP: ...where presidents and pooh-bahs commune -- Westford [fr the character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado who holds many high offices, the name probably coined fr two exclamations of contempt and derision

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