) | 1. | a person who holds several positions, esp. ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance. |
| 2. | a leader, authority, or other important person: one of the pooh bahs of the record industry. |
| 3. | a pompous, self-important person. |

A self-important person of high position and great influence. Pooh-Bah is a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado; his title is Lord-High-Everything-Else.