pish

• “Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.”

  Island Packet: Home

• “Captain Handsome has asked me a few times to go snow boarding with him and I kind of pish-poshed the idea, because even though I am a decent skier, the board sounds difficult and painful, and why go through all that when I can just stay at home naked and watch CSI?”

  whitehelmet Diary Entry

• “Miss Glover said something which sounded like 'pish' or 'tush'.”

  A Good Wife

• “Her grandmother uttered a sound which could have been 'pish' or 'tush', indicative of her disbelief.”

  A Kind Of Magic

• “He added that Molly had also written to Jack, but to what effect he knew not; only that Jack, after reading it in his presence, had 'pish'd' and pocketed it in a huff.”

  Hetty Wesley

• “The colonel heard the story with many a "pish," "tush" and "pshaw," and when the man had concluded the tale he exclaimed:”

  The Hidden Hand

• “My father "pish" ed and "pshaw" ed when he caught me "poking over" books, but my dear mother was inclined to regard me as a genius, whose learning might bring renown of a new kind into the family.”

  We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys

• “She fretted a little because she had not thought of changing our gloves for smaller sizes (they were eight and a quarter); but my father "pish" ed and”

  We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys

• “And when my lady hinted to my lord that he played more than she liked, he dismissed her with a "pish," and swore that nothing was more equal than play betwixt gentlemen, if they did but keep it up long enough.”

  The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

• “Ritsonian fastidiousness; and will cry 'pish' if a _u_ be put for a”

  Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

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