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