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pish
[ psh; spelling pronunciation pish ]
interjection
- (used as an exclamation of mild contempt or impatience.)
noun
- an exclamation of “pish!”
verb (used without object)
- to say “pish.”
verb (used with object)
- to say “pish” at or to.
pish
/ pɪʃ; pʃ /
interjection
- an exclamation of impatience or contempt
verb
- to make this exclamation at (someone or something)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pish1
First recorded in 1585–95; imitative
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Example Sentences
Pish: no more, Thy gall sures ouer throwne; these are my Councell,And we were now in serious discourse.
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Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
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Apician, a-pish′yan, adj. relating to Apicius, the Roman epicurean in the time of Tiberius: luxurious and expensive in diet.
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Oftentimes we laughed at our own blunders, as when I told Mary, one day, that pish was the Dakota for fish.
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All the light I am able to give the reader at present is this, that the moment my father cried Pish!
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