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English
Pronunciation
Interjection
pshaw
- Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
Pshaw! I can't believe it!
1891, A Conan Doyle, chapter 22, in The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y Crowell & Company , →OCLC:"Have a care, cousin," he whispered; "for the sake of the Virgin have a care, for you have angered him."
"Pshaw! fear not," the other answered in the same low tone.
1992, Wayne Campbell, Wayne's World:Pshaw! And monkeys might fly out of my butt.
Synonyms
- (indicating disapproval): pht, psh, pshh, phht, pssh, pssht, psht, pshht, feh, pooh, pish, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah
- (indicating disbelief): c'mon, poppycock; see also Thesaurus:bullshit
Translations
indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief
Verb
pshaw (third-person singular simple present pshaws, present participle pshawing, simple past and past participle pshawed)
- (intransitive) To express disgust or contempt by saying "pshaw".
Translations
to express disgust or contempt
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