int. [Prob. after mod.F. bah! in same sense.] An exclamation expressive of contempt.

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[1600.  Dekker, Gentle Craft, Wks. I. 40. Away she flung … nor said bih nor bah.]

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1817.  Byron, Beppo, xxxii. Dreading the deep damnation of his ‘bah!’

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1848.  Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., III. iii. Bah! priest! What can this Marpurg-madness do for me?

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  2.  Used as a vb. [Cf. to pooh-pooh, etc.]

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1838.  Dickens, Old C. Shop (C.D. ed.), 33. Mr. Richard … is Bah!’d for his pains.

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