pah
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of pah
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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The brain struggles with what's called "phonological processing" - being able to distinguish and manipulate sounds, like "bah" and "pah," that eventually have to be linked to written letters and words.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2011
One tap of the keyboard, and we were listening live: Oom pah pah, oom pah pah.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2010
A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts.
From Time Magazine Archive
No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge."
From Time Magazine Archive
But at two o'clock in the morning a woman cried out from within the pah that the Hau-Haus had all left leaving only some wounded men and women and children.
From Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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