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pooh-bah definition

pooh·-bah (po̵̅o̅′bä′)

noun

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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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