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pishogue Irish.|pɪˈʃəʊg|
Also pishog, pisherogue, pishrogue, pishtrogue.
[a. Ir. píseog, písreog witchcraft:—MIr. pisóc.]
Sorcery, witchcraft; a spell incantation, charm. Also, a fairy, a witch.
1829G. Griffin Collegians I. xi. 231 Mr. Euright's dairyman..made a pishog and took away our butter. 1841S. C. Hall Ireland II. 269 Now a pishogue is a wise saw, a rural incantation, a charm, a sign, a cabalistic word, a something mysterious signifying a great deal in a little. a1854T. C. Croker Fairy Leg. & Trad. S. Irel. (1879) 74 He had no right to be bringing his auld Irish pishogues to Rome. 1869P. Kennedy Evenings Duffrey xxvii. 357 He threw pishrogues on our eyes. 1895Barlow Lisconnel viii. 166 Wrought through the agency of ‘some quare ould pishtrogues’. 1901M. J. F. McCarthy Five Yrs. in Irel. xiv. (ed. 5) 155 The talk turned upon ‘pishogues’, or witchcraft and charms. 1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 10 Little people, pishogues, leprechauns. 1937C. M. Arensberg Irish Countryman vi. 212 All that the Church condemns in the ‘pisherogues’, they [sc. young people] also condemn. 1957E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways xxi. 296 Most of the pishrogues relate to fairies and to trees, wells and stones. 196020th Cent. July 51 She had denied it. ‘No, I am not a pishogue.’ Yet she was aware how easily one might become a fairy. 1961‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life ii. 17 Well now, Mrs. Crothy, are these the two pishrogues out of the storm? |