单词 | pshaw |
释义 | pshawv. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. 169 ‘Pshaw!’ 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). < v.1760int.n.1607 |
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