pshaw

American  

[shaw] / ʃɔ /

interjection

1. (used to express impatience, contempt, disbelief, etc.)

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noun

1. an exclamation of “pshaw!”

verb (used without object)

1. to say “pshaw.”

verb (used with object)

1. to say “pshaw” at or to.

pshaw British  

/ pʃɔː /

interjection

1. rare an exclamation of disgust, impatience, disbelief, etc

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Etymology

Origin of pshaw

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pshaw

Science fairs, pshaw, these kids wanted to talk policy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2013

There is obviously something to this, but there is a large pshaw factor as well.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, pshaw, Mara, you don't know these fellows; they are only playing games with us.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

I disliked his countenance from the first!—must be cool, however, and deliberate—must watch—and wait! pshaw, what am I at!

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander

I had a kind of a vision of a reformed Berault, dead to play and purging himself at a distance from Zaton's, winning, perhaps, a name In the Italian war, and finally--but, pshaw!

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.