pooh-pooh v 1: express contempt about 2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: {reject}, {spurn}, {freeze off}, {scorn}, {pooh-pooh}, {disdain}, {turn down}]
Pooh-pooh \Pooh`-pooh"\, v. t. To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]