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Find word: pish
1pish, v.2pish, int. and n.
1. intr. To say ‘pish!’; to express contempt, impatience, or disgust. Freq. with at. to pish and poh: see to pish and poh at POH v.
1601 B. JONSON Every Man in his Humor II. iii. 146 Bob. This a Toledo? pish. Step. Why do you pish signior? a1656 BP. J. HALL Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) II. 102 A motive..may be past over, and pisht at. 1713 R. STEELE Guardian No. 1511 How would the ladies pish at such a great monstrous thing? 1765 L. STERNE Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxvi. 117 He would never submit to it like a christian; but would pish, and huff, and bounce, and kick. 1849 E. BULWER-LYTTON Caxtons II. VIII. iii. 57 In another moment the member of parliament had forgotten the statist, and was pishing and tutting over the Globe or the Sun. a1864 N. HAWTHORNE Septimius Felton (1872) 154 The learned men..pished and pshawed. 1927 V. WOOLF To Lighthouse III. iv. 243 He sat with his legs twisted, frowning and fidgeting, and pishing and pshawing and muttering things to himself. 1987 Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Oct., Lawyer's may pish and tush and cry ‘never’; they used to in California.
2. trans. To say ‘pish’ to: (also, with away, down) to reject or deprecate by saying ‘pish!’. 1602 B. JONSON Poetaster V. iii. 75 Hor. Pish. ha, ha: Lup. Dost thou pish me? Giue me my Long sword. 1616 R. CROSHAW Compliment. Verses in J. Smith Descr. New Eng. sig. A3v, Though men of..lesse desert Would Pish-away thy Praise.
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 730 Some pish it down as valueless. 1981 I. ASIMOV in K. Frazier Paranormal Borderlines Sci. II. 223 Arthur goes on to give examples of ‘distinguished but elderly scientists’ who have pished and tut-tutted all sorts of things that have come to pass almost immediately.
DERIVATIVES
pishing n. 1662 Rump II. 63 Which puts pretty Maids to *pishing and fying. 1762 J. HALL-STEVENSON Crazy Tales in Wks. (1795) III. 15 Some fell to fiddling, some to fluting,..Others to pishing and disputing. 1908 Times 9 Dec. 14/4 We overheard..an occasional pishing and tushing. 1984 Time (Nexis) 9 Jan. (People section) 57 Which led to some inevitable pishing and tushing.
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