Winnie the Pooh

alternative Winnie-the-Pooh

1. CockneyslangA shoe.

plural Winnie the Poohs · alternative Winnie-the-Pooh

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.

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

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

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   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.

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

   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.

   2009, Arkady Babchenko, “The Diesel Stop”, in Jeff Parker, Mikhail Iossel, editors, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, Tin House Books, page 160

   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.

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

   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.

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

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

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

   Synonyms: Pooh

2. derogatoryslangChinese president Xi Jinping, due to his apparent resemblance.

   "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."

   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

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   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.

   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