Winnie the Pooh

• Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne used hyphens, the Disney version does not)

From a bear cub named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, and a swan named Pooh.

Winnie the Pooh (plural Winnie the Poohs)

1. 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.
   • 2004, John A. Miller, Jr, The Victorian Mansion Murders, Pima Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     No amount of Winnie the Poohs on the wall could distract you from seeing the huge bloodstain on the carpet.

   • 2007, Bee Wilson, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Macmillan) page 221

     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.

   • 2009, Arkady Babchenko, "The Diesel Stop", in Jeff Parker, Mikhail Iossel (eds.) Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House Books) page 160

     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.

   • 2011, Mark Grant, Out of the Box and onto Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons) page 375

     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.

   • 2012, Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough (Baker Books) page 44

     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.

   • 2013, Douglas Lindsay, The End Of Days (Blasted Heath Ltd) page 11

     They had all, to a man and woman, been rumbled, like so many Winnie The Poohs with their hands in Rabbit's honey pot.

   • 2014, Pamela Butchart, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2016, Gene Perret, New Tricks for Old Dogs: 28 Laughable Lessons for People Too Stiff to Change … or Bend … or Move, Familius LLC, →ISBN:

     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 …”

2. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (Cockney rhyming slang) Shoe.

• Pooh

• Winnie-the-Poohish