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▪ I. pshaw, int. and n.|pʃɔː, ʃɔː|
Also 8 pshah, sha, 'pshaw, 8–9 psha, 9 p'shaw, (psa, psaw).
[A natural expression of rejection.]
A. int. An exclamation expressing contempt, impatience, or disgust.
1673Wycherley Gentl. Dancing Master iii, Mons. Pshaw! wat do you tell me of the matche! 1710Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Dec., Why, it seems your pacquet-boat is not lost: pshah, how silly that is. 1710S. Centlivre Bickerstaff's Burying 15 Sha, sha; I tell thee thou art mistaken. 1798Frere, etc. in Anti-Jacobin No. 31 (1852) 174 'Pshaw! what, ever blundering!—you drive me from my patience. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 162 P'shaw, exclaims some old sportsman. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. iii. xiv, ‘Pshaw!’ was the peevish ejaculation of Mr. Dare. 1887J. W. Graham Neæra I. x. 110 Psa! it is excusable in a woman. Ibid. II. v. 168 Psaw!
B. as n.
1712Steele Spect. No. 438 ⁋3 Pishes and Pshaws, or other well-bred Interjections. 1768Baretti Mann. & Cust. Italy I. 277 To answer me with an angry pshaw. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Her precious Leg x, She writh'd with impatience more than pain, And uttered ‘pshaws!’ and ‘pishes!’ 1845Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 179/1 Pish and pshaw..express different shades of contempt, the latter showing more of ill humour and vexation than the former.
▪ II. pshaw, v.|pʃɔː, ʃɔː|
[f. prec.]
1. intr. To say ‘pshaw!’ Often with at.
1759Sterne Tr. Shandy I. xvii, My father travelled homewards..in none of the best of moods—pshawing and pishing all the way down. 1822Scott Nigel viii, And why pshaw at my Lord Mayor, sweetheart? a1864[see pish v. 1]. 1891Longm. Mag. Sept. 455 Don't ‘Pshaw!’ at me.
2. trans. To depreciate or show contempt for by saying ‘pshaw!’
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxix. [xxii.], They psha'd the French fleet. 1901Blackw. Mag. Feb. 247/1 He pshawed his melancholy vapours. |