pshaw

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   dated: used to express impatience, disbelief, contempt, or dismissal

   Pshaw! That flimsy excuse will convince no one.

2. 2
   verb

   dated: to reject or dismiss something by saying pshaw

   She pshawed every warning until the storm finally arrived.

An imitative interjection recorded from the seventeenth century, probably representing a dismissive puff or hiss. It later developed a rare verb meaning to utter the exclamation or dismiss something contemptuously.

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