Pooh-Bah Definition

po͝obä
noun
An official or leader who maintains full control as by holding several offices.
Webster's New World
A person who holds high office.
American Heritage
Alternative spelling of poobah.
Wiktionary
Alternative form of poobah.
Wiktionary
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Noun

Singular:
Pooh-Bah
Plural:
pooh-bahs

Origin of Pooh-Bah

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

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Pooh-Bah, a comic character in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado (1885).

    From Wiktionary

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