pshaw
English
WOTD – 18 April 2006
Pronunciation
- spelling pronunciation IPA(key): /ˈpʃɔː/, enPR: pshô; IPA(key): /ˈʃɔː/, enPR: shô
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː
Interjection
pshaw
- Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief. [from 17th c.]
- Pshaw! I can't believe it!
- 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, “chapter 13”, in The Pioneers:
- "Pshaw! Why do ye bother yourself wid texts, man, about so small a matter?" interrupted the landlady
- 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 56, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
- 'Pshaw!' Ralph muttered, forcing a laugh.
- 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter 22, in The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC:
- "Have a care, cousin," he whispered; "for the sake of the Virgin have a care, for you have angered him."
"Pshaw! fear not," the other answered in the same low tone.
- 1992, Wayne Campbell, Wayne's World:
- Pshaw! And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
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Translations
indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief
Verb
pshaw (third-person singular simple present pshaws, present participle pshawing, simple past and past participle pshawed)
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