Thesaurus:bah

Thesaurus

bah

English

Interjection

Sense: onomatopoetic expression of contempt or disdain

Synonyms

• bah
• blech
• bleck (rare)
• faugh (dated)
• faw
• feh
• foh (obsolete)
• fough (obsolete)
• gaw
• harumph
• pah
• pfaugh
• pfui
• phht
• pho (archaic)
• phoh (archaic)
• pht
• piff
• pish
• poh (dated)
• pooh
• pshaw
• pssh
• pshh
• pshht
• psht
• pssht
• pugh (archaic)
• puh
• tush

See also

• Thesaurus:contempt
• Thesaurus:despise
• Thesaurus:yuck

Further reading

• “930. contempt” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “bah” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.