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pshaw

[ shaw ]

interjection

  1. (used to express impatience, contempt, disbelief, etc.)


noun

  1. an exclamation of “pshaw!”

verb (used without object)

  1. to say “pshaw.”

verb (used with object)

  1. to say “pshaw” at or to.

pshaw

/ pʃɔː /

interjection

  1. rare.
    an exclamation of disgust, impatience, disbelief, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pshaw1

First recorded in 1665–75

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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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