pooh-bah

(po̵̅o̅′bä′)

noun

Informal an official or leader who maintains full control as by holding several offices

Origin: after Pooh-Bah, a character in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado (1885) < pooh + bah

See pooh-bah in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or pooh-bah

noun

A pompous ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them.
A person who holds high office.

Origin:

Origin: After Pooh-Bah, Lord-High-Everything-Else, a character in The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

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