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Old Jun 27, 2008, 10:29 AM
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Pooh-Bah or pooh-bah (pbä)
n.
1. A pompous ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them.
2. A person who holds high office.

[After Pooh-Bah, Lord-High-Everything-Else, a character in The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.]

Now, a Grand Poobah is something else...
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