Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express disdain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation of contempt.
- To express contempt by or as by the exclamation “Pish!”
- To say “Pish!” to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection An exclamation of contempt.
- intransitive verb To express contempt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection An expression of
disdain . - noun A
sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds. - verb To try to attract birds by making a
sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh"). - verb To
express contempt .
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Examples
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Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Or you could learn how to "pish" -- Pete Dunne will demonstrate "pishing," or imitating a bird call to attract birds.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Captain Handsome has asked me a few times to go snow boarding with him and I kind of pish-poshed the idea, because even though I am a decent skier, the board sounds difficult and painful, and why go through all that when I can just stay at home naked and watch CSI?
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2005
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Miss Glover said something which sounded like 'pish' or 'tush'.
A Good Wife Neels, Betty 1999
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Her grandmother uttered a sound which could have been 'pish' or 'tush', indicative of her disbelief.
A Kind Of Magic Neels, Betty 1991
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He added that Molly had also written to Jack, but to what effect he knew not; only that Jack, after reading it in his presence, had 'pish'd' and pocketed it in a huff.
Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
brandelion commented on the word pish
pet fish
December 14, 2006
slumry commented on the word pish
Pish!
July 17, 2007
skipvia commented on the word pish
A sound, described as a cross between a whistle and a whisper, used by birders to attract birds. Right, reesetee?
December 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pish
Just so, skip. Here's more information for anyone who's interested.
December 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word pish
Pish!
December 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pish
Bilby, you have a chickadee on your shoulder.
December 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word pish
Squeak!
December 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word pish
"physio1: flood in Lanark today.
whatusernameainttaken: some of the play is stinking, pish.
physio1: and inverness was flood too.
hoops_mikey_hoops: aww.
poshasbo: extreme pishing in lanark."
- viewer comments on St Mirren v Celtic football match, justin.tv, 7 March 2009.
March 7, 2009
sionnach commented on the word pish
Is this the same pish that appears in the phrase "pish tush", which I seem to remember from "The Mikado"?
Pitti Sing.
March 8, 2009
john commented on the word pish
Yiddish for piss.
April 6, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word pish
Also see pugh.
July 5, 2013