Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pishes.

Examples

  • All the time Doctor Bryerly was relating his conference with the head of the family at Bartram-Haugh my cousin commented on the narrative with a variety of little 'pishes' and sneers, which I thought showed more of vexation than contempt.

    Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • All the time Doctor Bryerly was relating his conference with the head of the family at Bartram – Haugh my cousin commented on the narrative with a variety of little “pishes” and sneers, which I thought showed more of vexation than contempt.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • None the less, he would not have belonged to the nation he did, had he not indulged in a caustic chuckle and a pair of good-humoured pishes and pshaws, at

    Australia Felix 2003

  • It is true, all this betrayal of interest was accompanied by various pishes and pshaws, and lamentations over the trifling character of my pursuits; but, like too many others, both in his cloth and out of it, his conduct contradicted his language, and I was encouraged by the former, while I only smiled at the latter.

    The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

  • Mrs. Penny is weeping down behind the hedge; Mandy Loomis is hurling herself out of the window as if bent on suicide; Dr. Brown pishes and pshaws, and blows his nose, and says they are a pack of ridiculous noodles, and he must give them a dose of salts all round to-morrow, as sure as his name is John Brown.

    Melody : the Story of a Child Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • And after tats and pishes innumerable from Mr. Trevanion, and sundry bland grimaces from Sir

    The Caxtons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And after tats and pishes innumerable from Mr. Trevanion, and sundry bland grimaces from Sir

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • So one night I'm lying on the couch and the terrier just comes and pishes as close to my head as he can get he'd been out for a toilet break not long before so wasn't desperate.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • So one night I'm lying on the couch and the terrier just comes and pishes as close to my head as he can get he'd been out for a toilet break not long before so wasn't desperate.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • But my paper admoT pishes me in good time to draw the reins, and

    The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq.: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers 1812

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.