Winnie the Poohish

See also: Winnie-the-Poohish and Winnie the Pooh-ish

English

Adjective

Winnie the Poohish (comparative more Winnie the Poohish, superlative most Winnie the Poohish)

1. Alternative form of Winnie-the-Poohish.
   • 1954 December 6, L[eonard] Marsland Gander, “TV and Radio Topics: One Foot in Each TV Camp”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, number 31,017, London, Manchester, page 8:

     The author of this fable, which sounds somewhat Winnie the Poohish, is Ted Allen, a Canadian, welcomed by the B.B.C. as a discovery.

   • 1980 March 25, Doug Simmons, “Private Lightning (A&M)”, in The Phoenix, page 8:

     “Song of the Kite,” for example, is a Winnie the Poohish fantasy about a velvet-voiced DJ named Christopher Sky.

   • 2004, Bob Yareham, English Beauty (Everything You Wanted to Know About English, but Fell Asleep in Class), Blanca Books S.L., →ISBN, page 42:

     It was confidently employed as a remedy for gout, under the name Dover’s Powders; and even given to crying babies, with the Winnie the Poohish-sounding name Godfrey’s Cordial; at least until 1920 when The Dangerous Drugs Act declared that babies were no longer to be drugged into a conveniently deep and dreamy sleep.