PSHAW

Definition: PSHAW

PSHAW

Interjection

1. Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.

Intransitive verb

1. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PSHAW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references)

Note: Pshaw \Pshaw\, interjection [Of imitative origin.]. (Websters 1913)

Excitability

Interjection: pish! pshaw!

Unimportance

Interjection: no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge! bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind! n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff! nonsense!

Crosswords: PSHAW

Pshaw! nothing crooked about drawing a will, is there?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Ah, pshaw! Down with the philosophers!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

phu (phew, phooey). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أف (tut tut). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сумтя презрително, вятър (air, wind), пфю, пфу (pah, pish, tut), изсумтявам презрително. (various references)

Farsi 

واه , اه گفتن , اوه (Well). (various references)

French

peuh. (various references)

German

pah (pooh). (various references)

Greek 

κουραφέξαλα (fiddlesticks, fudge, hot air, nuts, rubbish, twaddle). (various references)

Hungarian

ugyan (now, now!, say so, there, there!, though, tush). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ふるいに掛ける (abundant, awkward, baggy, by chance, casually, complaining, drifting, floating, fully, grumbling, hmm, huh, humph, in plenty, lavish, loose-fitting or baggy, pish, plentiful, to sieve, to sift, too big, weightlessness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふ�" (hmm, huh, humph, pish). (various references)

Pig Latin

awpshay

Romanian

ptiu (damn, pah, phew, pooh), ah (ah, dear me, goodness me, hah, heigh-ho, my goodness, oh, oh heavens, oho, phew, sigh, tut, very well, well). (various references)

Russian 

выражать пренебрежение (pish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koješta (fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, tommy rot, tommyrot). (various references)

Spanish

bah (bah, pooh). (various references)

Swedish

äh. (various references)

Turkish

püf (humph, pish, pooh, puff), of (ah, humph, ouch, phew, pish, pooh, ugh, whew), öf (ah, humph, ouch, phew, pish, pooh, ugh, whew). (various references)

Ukrainian

фе (auh), фиркати (chortle, snort). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "PSHAW": pshawed, pshawing, pshaws. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: whaps.

-1 letter: haps, hasp, haws, pash, paws, shaw, swap, waps, wash, wasp, whap.

-2 letters: ash, asp, hap, has, haw, pah, pas, paw, sap, saw, sha, spa, wap, was, wha.

-3 letters: ah, as, aw, ha, pa, sh.

+1 letter: pshaws, washup, whaups.

+2 letters: prewash, pshawed, shipway, wampish, warship, washups, waspish, whipsaw.

+3 letters: pathways, pawnshop, pshawing, shipways, shwanpan, southpaw, swampish, towpaths, wardship, warpaths, warships, whappers, whiplash, whiprays, whipsawn, whipsaws, whooplas.

+4 letters: pawnshops, phasedown, plowheads, plowshare, prewashed, prewashes, showplace, shwanpans, southpaws, stopwatch, sweatshop, wampished, wampishes, wardships, waspishly, waveshape, whipsawed, whiptails, whitecaps.

+5 letters: patchworks, phasedowns, plowshares, prewashing, showplaces, splashdown, sweatshops, wampishing, wardenship, waveshapes, whiplashes, whipsawing.