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Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).

• IPA^(key): /pɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

pish

1. Expressing disdain.

• pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah

pish (plural pishes)

1. A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
2. Synonym of pish posh (“nonsense, poppycock”)

pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishing, simple past and past participle pished)

1. To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
2. To express contempt.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 73, column 1:

     Piſh for thee, Iſland dogge: thou prickeard cur of Iſland.

• Most commonly found in the gerund or present participle pishing.

pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish)

1. (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.

• “pish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Dunne, Peter (2006). The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls. →ISBN.
• Langham, G. M.; Contreras, T. A. & Sieving, K. E. (2006). Why pishing works: Titmouse (Paridae) scolds elicit a generalized response in bird communities. Ecoscience 13 (4): 485–496. doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2006)132.0.CO;2

• pish pash (etymlogically unrelated)

• -ship, HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, ship

Deliberate misspelling of push, from English push.

• IPA^(key): /pʰiʃ⁵⁵/

pish

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) to bump a thread in support

• 推 (teoi¹), push

• pull, 拉

• English: age

Borrowed from English fish, or possibly French pêche.

pish

1. fish

From Chinook opitshka.

pish

1. fire

• piah

• beesh (obsolete orthography)

From English peas.

pish

1. peas

• A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)

From late Middle English pyshe, variant of pisse.

• IPA^(key): /pɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

pish (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) Urine, piss.
2. (vulgar) Crust on a scabbing wound.

pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishin, simple past pished, past participle pished)

1. To urinate, to piss.

• reekin o pish

pish (comparative mair pish, superlative maist pish)

1. (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quite bad.

pish

1. An expression of disdain.

• “pish” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

From English fish.

• IPA^(key):

pish

1. fish