pish

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

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  1. interjection Used to express disdain.

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  • It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
  • It drags itself out of the dark abyss… of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. —  The Word Detective
  • Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds. —  Island Packet: Home
  • With a sneer Dear grandpapa, we did not think of money, but that we love each other Love--pish! —  Molly Bawn
  • Little wonder, then, that, when the appeal came, he could hardly speak, but, as before intimated, being apparently of a retiring nature, abruptly retired from the spot, leaving the chagrined stranger to wander away in the opposite direction CHAPTER VI AT THE OUTSET OF WHICH CERTAIN PASSENGERS PROVE DEAF TO THE CALL OF CHARITY You--pish! —  The Confidence-Man
 

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  1. Imitative of a sound made to show contempt.
 

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