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pshaw
[ shaw ]
interjection
- (used to express impatience, contempt, disbelief, etc.)
noun
- an exclamation of “pshaw!”
verb (used without object)
- to say “pshaw.”
verb (used with object)
- to say “pshaw” at or to.
pshaw
/ pʃɔː /
interjection
- rare.an exclamation of disgust, impatience, disbelief, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pshaw1
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Example Sentences
And the lesson to be learned from that is—Pshaw I forget just what lesson I was going to draw from the kicking cow.
"Pshaw," said Loretta, but June saw two bright spots come into her pretty cheeks, and she herself burned inwardly.
A dangerous campaign lay before him, and the omens—but pshaw!
General Morgan took it, glanced over it, then with a shrug of his shoulders and a "pshaw!"
To which Yorick, with his usual carelessness of heart, would as often answer with a pshaw!
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