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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.jokes
Subject: odd definitions
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 02:31:27 EST
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Webster's 2nd unabridged dictionary actually contains the following
definitions:

pooh'-pooh'  A reduplication of pooh.

pooh'-pooh', or pooh'pooh' the'o.ry  The theory that language orginated in
	interjections which gradually acquired meaning.  Cf. BOWWOW THEORY,
	DINGDONG THEORY
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak