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

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.
   • 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.

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