Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to indicate impatience, irritation, disapproval, or disbelief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An exclamation implying contempt, disdain, impatience, or a sense of absurdity.
- To utter the interjection pshaw; evince contempt or impatience by such interjections as pshaw.
Wiktionary
- interj. Indicating disapproval, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
- v. intransitive To express disgust or contempt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.
- v. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation “
Pshaw !”
Examples
“And to those who say that the Internet is killing newspapers, Peter says "pshaw" - a recent study has shown that not to be the case.”
“Although this little word pshaw must be allowed, according to all the rules of verbal criticism, to imply disbelief or indifference, yet, in the present case, it actually meant no such thing.”
“My husband actually uses the word "pshaw" on occasion.”
“He looked as if he intended to say "pshaw" or "fiddlesticks" or something of that order, then changed his mind and looked up sharply.”
“You kin 'pshaw' till the cows come home," cried the other heatedly.”
“We may "pshaw" and "pooh" at Harry Gill and the Idiot Boy; but the deep and tremulous tenderness of sentiment, the strong-winged flight of fancy, the excelling and unvarying purity, which pervade all the writings of Wordsworth, and the exquisite melody of his lyrical poems, must ever continue to attract and purify the mind.”
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
“[quote] [quote = "pshaw"] This is very scary because of two questions that the 911 operator asks to determine the "degree of force and maximum force allowed by the responding officers":”
“pshaw" ed, and said it was better than if they had been too small, and that we should be sure to be late if my mother went on fidgeting.”
“pshaw" ed about the blunderbuss, and was beginning to say more, when I was dismissed to bed, where I wandered back over the moors in uneasy dreams, and woke with the horror of a tramp's hand upon my shoulder.”
“It wasn't so very long ago that women Said 'pshaw' when they wanted to let off steam.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pshaw’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Pshaw, Hawkshaw!
Take the bashaw in the rickshaw, or no cumshaw for you.
pshaw, hawkshaw, bashaw, rickshaw, autorickshaw, scrimshaw, trishaw, cumshaw, cycle-rickshaw, crenshaw, kickshaw, hernshaw
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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stpeter's Words
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i_am_scifi's Words
asshat, charlatan, podcast, geek, amazonian, parlez, defile, menagerie, perplex, gotham, metropolis, ghoul and 131 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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18th century british
from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal ...
intimacy, piety, partiality, sentimental, plasters, mawkish, drab, spurious, sententious, bitters, folly, virtue and 132 more...
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dontcry's sounds-like list
sounds like
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To The Lighthouse
Words gathered while reading To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
ermine, prolegomenon, blandishment, hindustanee, greatcoat, absorbedly, cyclamen, jacmanna, pampas, covey, colloquy, cumber and 59 more...
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herrherr's list
vicenarian, kretek, portmanteau, neologism, medomalacuphobia, outre, ootheca, cantankerous, cockamamie, poppycock, pshaw, uroboros and 40 more...
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treeseed Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
Main Entry: pshaw
Pronunciation: \ˈshȯ\
Function: interjection
Date: 1656
—used to express irritation, disapproval, contempt, or disbelief Apr 30, 2008