音标:['pu:bɑ:] ;
n. [口语]身居高位的人;兼任多种职务的人[亦作Pooh-Bab,poobah]=pooh-bah

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学英语单词
abiogenous
abrasion resistant steel
Akulichi
anthranoyllycoctonine
aubepine
background clutter
Bentonite Spur
bicyclopentadienylidene
black mercurial lotion
blowoff velocity
boiler lagging plate joint piece
Bougouanou, Dép.de
buckypaper
cascade machines
cauliflower mosaic virus
cellist
chlorogenates
CI-679
clavine
Clitopilus
crann
customized definition
cutting performance
cystocyst
decimal places
deniece
diet low-salt
dispurses
dot-com boom
double line
driver perception-reaction time
Dygratyl
effective cylinder volume
eismen
electromagnetic overload release
entertainment-shopping district
eobiogenesis (pirie 1937)
epiphloedal
fedaries
Fengluanite
floor drain collector pump
fruticosus
gate distributing valve
ghoulish
Gordia
gray ghost
Heterolamium debile
horizontal deflection electrode
hyperfluorescence
hypophysial canal
illusional
industrial waste gas
insignious
instant on system
kangeroo
Kaynardzha
legeay
macroporous ion exchanger
make sth up as you go along
mark-to-model
marker arm
Mesima, Fiume
methylene succinic acid
Norfuk
nuclear bomber
one-worlds
ons-off switch
orange mint
osteoconduction
overhelped
patrol box
pedlar
pointer adjustment
predicted
pressure sensitive dyes
preventive putrefaction
proforma invoice
psti
pulchelloide
relaying partner
removal plug
repeat to address
restrictionary
Roegneria purpurascens
rotye
Sapakan
selwoods
separation elements
serial i/o channel
subject of experimental acupuncture and moxibustion
talonid
testing station
throat diameter
traction drill wagon
tunica conjunctiva
variable flow control
video-phone
violetrays
water vapor content
wind-screen
wrake
yerking