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单词 pshaw
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pshawv.

Brit. /(p)ʃɔː/, U.S. /(p)ʃɔ/
Forms: see pshaw int. and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pshaw int.
Etymology: < pshaw int.
Now archaic.
1. intransitive. To say ‘pshaw!’ (as an expression of impatience or disgust). Frequently with at.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt vocally
hissa1425
puff1490
pup1560
blurt1596
pooh1614
pshaw1760
snort1818
bah1841
poof1915
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > be or become irritated [verb (intransitive)] > express irritation
pshaw1760
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xvii. 96 My father travelled homewards..in none of the best of moods,—pshaw-ing and pish-ing all the way down.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. viii. 211 And why pshaw at my Lord Mayor, sweetheart?
a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 154 The learned men..pished and pshawed.
1891 Longman's Mag. Sept. 455 Don't ‘Pshaw!’ at me.
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.
1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 192 I pshawed. You don't often get a chance to pshaw these days, and I made the most of it.
2. transitive. To depreciate or show contempt for by saying ‘pshaw!’; to say ‘pshaw!’ at. Also (with direct speech as object): to utter in a depreciative or contemptuous manner. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > vocally
hootc1175
tush1555
to make a tush at (or of)1600
pish1602
pooh-pooh1823
behoot1838
pshaw1848
pooh1858
phoo-phoo1865
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxii. 83 They psha'd the French fleet.
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 247/1 He pshawed his melancholy vapours.
1990 Musician Feb. 110/1 ‘Absolute rubbish,’ she pshaws, laughing.
2005 Nation 28 Feb. 36/1 Johnson had always pshawed the notion that his fights were blows against the white empire on behalf of the beleaguered Black man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pshawint.n.

Brit. /pʃɔː/, U.S. /(p)ʃɔ/, /(p)ʃɑ/
Forms: 1600s pshew, 1600s shaw, 1600s–1800s psha, 1600s– pshaw, 1700s pshah, 1700s 'pshaw, 1700s sha, 1700s–1800s p'shaw, 1800s psa, 1800s psaw; U.S. regional (southern) 1900s– pa-shew, 1900s– pee-shew, 1900s– pshew.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare shoo int.1, shoo int.2, pah int., pish int., etc.
Now archaic or humorous.
A. int.
Expressing contempt, impatience, or disgust, or used to depreciate or dismiss some statement or notion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]
prut?c1300
trutc1330
truptc1380
ahaa1400
tushc1440
puff1481
quotha?1520
ah?1526
ta ha1528
twish1577
blurt1592
gip1592
pish1592
tantia1593
(God) bless (also save) the mark1593
phah1593
marry come up1597
mew1600
pooh1600
marry muff1602
pew waw1602
ptish1602
pew1604
push1605
pshaw1607
tuh1607
pea1608
poh1650
pooh pooh1694
hoity-toity1695
highty-tighty1699
quoz?1780
indeed1834
shuck1847
skidoo1906
suck1913
zut1915
yah boo1921
pooey1927
ptui1930
snubs1934
upya1941
yah boo sucks1980
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > expression of irritation [interjection]
when1592
pshaw1607
que voulez-vous1841
psht1868
what the Hanover1902
gah1917
give me strength1923
for crying out loud1924
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. sig. B4v Pshaw; a foolish Cozen of mine; I must thanke God for him.
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iii Mons. Pshaw! wat do you tell me of the matche!
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Dec. (1948) I. 119 Why, it seems your pacquet-boat is not lost: pshah, how silly that is.
1710 S. Centlivre Bickerstaff's Burying i. ii. 15 Sha, sha; I tell thee thou art mistaken.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xvi. 115 Pshaw! brother, there's no occasion to bowss out so much unnecessary gum.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 11 June 244/2 'Pshaw! What, ever blundering—you drive me from my patience.
1814 Sporting Mag. 44 162 P'shaw, exclaims some old sportsman.
a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 179/1 Pish and pshaw..express different shades of contempt, the latter showing more of ill humour and vexation than the former.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles III. xiv. 169Pshaw!’ was the peevish ejaculation of Mr. Dare.
1887 J. W. Graham Neæra I. x. 110 Psa! it is excusable in a woman.
1925 C. Dobie in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 111 But, pshaw, it ain't as if you and me was strangers.
1992 Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 6/1 James Brown: the Godfather of Soul? Pshaw! He's the Godfather of Modern Culture.
B. n.
An utterance of ‘pshaw’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > expression of irritation
pshaw1712
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance
blurt1579
puff1579
pish1593
pooh1593
tush1600
hiss1602
mew1606
pshaw1712
pooh pooh1798
poof1864
razoo1888
raspberry1890
razz1917
razzberry1920
Bronx cheer1929
big deal1949
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 438. ⁋3 Pishes and Pshaws, or other well-bred Interjections.
1748 Tryal Thomas Grimes 31 The Prosecutrix may have made some wry Faces, some Pishes and Pshaws.
1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy I. 277 To answer me with an angry pshaw.
1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 98 She writhed with impatience more than pain, And utter'd ‘pshaws!’ and ‘pishes!’
1867 Lady's Friend May 319/1 As Philip was about to hurry away, with a bow, and a muttered pshaw! she would..ask him to explain a mystical passage in Shelley or Byron.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim viii. 101 My obtuseness provoked him into a contemptuous ‘Pshaw!’
a1918 N.-V. Ghosha Poet. Wks. Ram Sharma (1919) 233 From Sir Charles to Abdullah just wedded to Law, All speak of the change with a pish and a pshaw!
1998 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 3 May f2 The revised House guidelines have been greeted with a collective pshaw from television reporters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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