Winnie the Pooh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winnie the Poohs
form: Winnie-the-Pooh
Etymology: From a bear cub named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, and a swan named Pooh.
Senses: examples: text: No amount of Winnie the Poohs on the wall could distract you from seeing the huge bloodstain on the carpet.
ref: 2004, John A. Miller, Jr, The Victorian Mansion Murders, Pima Books, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Even in Europe, where killer bees are not much a menace, we have developed a kind of Winnie-the-Pooh attitude to the bees: they are dangerous, they are unpredictable, and they are usually acting to thwart us.
ref: 2007, Bee Wilson, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, Macmillan, page 221:
text: The Stop commander was one Colonel Zimin, a loud, round, cheerful Winnie the Pooh type, who was always in excellent spirits, always joking and liked to pat the soldiers affectionately on the cheek when talking to them.
ref: 2009, Arkady Babchenko, “The Diesel Stop”, in Jeff Parker, Mikhail Iossel, editors, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, Tin House Books, page 160:
text: Awake each day with excitement; there are pirates to fight, a yellow brick road to find, and new parts of Winnie the Pooh's forest to explore.
ref: 2011, Mark Grant, Out of the Box and onto Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, page 375:
text: Winnie the Poohs can be a little smug and take great pride in the fact that while the rest of us are spinning like crazy tops, they're walking calmly through life.
ref: 2012, Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough, Baker Books, page 44:
text: They had all, to a man and woman, been rumbled, like so many Winnie The Poohs with their hands in Rabbit's honey pot.
ref: 2013, Douglas Lindsay, The End Of Days, Blasted Heath Ltd, page 11:
text: Like the time Mum made the Winnie the Pooh chocolate lollies for the cake sale, before cakes got banned. And I COULDN’T WAIT for them to set and go hard, so I could have one. So I kept taking them out of the fridge and drinking a bit out of the mould. And then when Mum went to get them in the morning, none of the Winnie the Poohs had any legs, and Eeyore didn’t have a head.
ref: 2014, Pamela Butchart, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:
text: Censored photos included one of Winnie the Pooh in a car (Internet users in China have long likened Mr. Xi to images of the pudgy bear) and another of the Obama family purportedly watching the parade on television.
ref: 2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “Trending on Chinese Social Media: Xi’s Salute, an Autocrat’s Son and Winnie the Pooh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2024, World:
text: When I returned, I said, “My daughter’s doing the nursery in Winnie the Pooh.” “Pooh?” she said. “Yes,” I said. “Winnie the.” “Pooh,” she repeated. I sensed that she wasn’t happy with me for some reason or another. “Pooh,” I reiterated. She said (very patronizingly, I might add), “Sir, we have at least four different Winnie the Poohs in our collection. You have your classic Pooh, your Disney Pooh …”
ref: 2016, Gene Perret, New Tricks for Old Dogs: 28 Laughable Lessons for People Too Stiff to Change … or Bend … or Move, Familius LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: A talking bear from an English children's book series carrying the same name, noted for his sweet, simple nature, and his love of honey.
glosses: Shoe.
examples: text: Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh - representing China's President Xi Jinping - as a defiant symbol of the island's resistance to Chinese war games.[…]
Chinese censors have long targeted representations of Winnie the Pooh - created by British author A.A. Milne - over internet memes that compare the fictional bear to China's president.[…]
While the Winnie the Pooh patch cannot be found on Chinese social media, Beijing has also been promoting videos and commentary about its drills around Taiwan.
ref: 2023 April 10, Sarah Wu, Yew Lun Tian, Fabian Hamacher, Yimou Lee, “A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes viral”, in Gareth Jones, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023:
text: "I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."
ref: 2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024:
glosses: Chinese president Xi Jinping, due to his apparent resemblance.
Synonyms: word: Pooh
Derived terms: Winnie-the-Poohish