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单词 pish
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pishv.

Brit. /pɪʃ/, U.S. /pɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pish int.
Etymology: < pish int.
1. intransitive. To say ‘pish!’; to express contempt, impatience, or disgust. Frequently with at. to pish and poh: see poh v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > disgust or excite repugnance [verb] > show disgust vocally
pish1601
fie-fie1836
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4v Bob. This a Toledo? pish. Step. Why do you pish signior? View more context for this quotation
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 102 A motive..may be past over, and pisht at.
1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 151. ⁋1 How would the ladies pish at such a great monstrous thing?
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxvi. 117 He would never submit to it like a christian; but would pish, and huff, and bounce, and kick.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. viii. iii. 57 In another moment the member of parliament had forgotten the statist, and was pishing and tutting over the Globe or the Sun.
a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 154 The learned men..pished and pshawed.
1927 V. Woolf To Lighthouse iii. iv. 243 He sat with his legs twisted, frowning and fidgeting, and pishing and pshawing and muttering things to himself.
1987 Herald (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Oct. Lawyer's may pish and tush and cry ‘never’; they used to in California.
2. transitive. To say ‘pish’ to: (also, with away, down) to reject or deprecate by saying ‘pish!’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > vocally
hootc1175
tush1555
to make a tush at (or of)1600
pish1602
pooh-pooh1823
behoot1838
pshaw1848
pooh1858
phoo-phoo1865
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. Lv Horace. Pish. Ha, ha: Lupus. Dost thou pish me? Giue me my Long sword.
1616 R. Croshaw in J. Smith Descr. New Eng. sig. A3v Though men of..lesse desert Would Pish-away thy Praise.
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 730 Some pish it down as valueless.
1981 I. Asimov in K. Frazier Paranormal Borderlines Sci. ii. 223 Arthur goes on to give examples of ‘distinguished but elderly scientists’ who have pished and tut-tutted all sorts of things that have come to pass almost immediately.

Derivatives

ˈpishing n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally
hootinga1225
tushing1548
blurting1598
pishery pashery1600
pishing1662
pooh-poohing1853
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > action of expressing disgust
pishing1662
fohing1685
1662 A. Brome Rump (new ed.) ii. 63 Which puts pretty Maids to pishing and fying.
1762 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales 15 Some fell to fiddling, some to fluting,..Others to pishing and disputing.
1908 Times 9 Dec. 14/4 We overheard..an occasional pishing and tushing.
1984 Time (Nexis) 9 Jan. (People section) 57 Which led to some inevitable pishing and tushing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pishint.n.

Brit. /pɪʃ/, U.S. /pɪʃ/
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare earlier tush int., also push int., and slightly later pshaw int.
A. int.
Expressing contempt, impatience, or disgust. Also (reduplicated) pish pish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]
prut?c1300
trutc1330
truptc1380
ahaa1400
tushc1440
puff1481
quotha?1520
ah?1526
ta ha1528
twish1577
blurt1592
gip1592
pish1592
tantia1593
(God) bless (also save) the mark1593
phah1593
marry come up1597
mew1600
pooh1600
marry muff1602
pew waw1602
ptish1602
pew1604
push1605
pshaw1607
tuh1607
pea1608
poh1650
pooh pooh1694
hoity-toity1695
highty-tighty1699
quoz?1780
indeed1834
shuck1847
skidoo1906
suck1913
zut1915
yah boo1921
pooey1927
ptui1930
snubs1934
upya1941
yah boo sucks1980
the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > exclamation of impatience [interjection]
pish1592
shugh1640
chut1825
zut1915
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > exclamation of disgust [interjection]
foȝa1250
fie1297
faugh1542
ough1565
pah1592
pish1592
phah1593
paw1640
poh1650
sis1862
gick1905
ptui1930
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
you wouldn't read about it1950
yeuch1964
barf1966
yuck1966
ick1967
yech1969
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 v Pish, pish, what talke you of olde age or balde pates.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. i. 38, 39 Nym. Pish. Pist. Pish for thee, Island dogge. View more context for this quotation
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 52 Pish, said I, that's no such great matter.
a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) 56 Pish, Pish, quoth Seymour in a Huff.
1763 M. Cornwallis Let. in G. Cornwallis-West Life & Lett. W. Cornwallis (1927) I. ii. 28 I was at Almack's last night, and such sort of doings [to] which you will say pish, was I to give you account.
a1854 R. M. Bird City Looking Glass (1933) ii. v. 55 Pish! she can't hear.
1894 S. Weyman Under Red Robe xiv. 264Pish!’ I growled. ‘Someone has fooled you.’
1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer xv. 238 Sorry to hurt your feelings..but I'm beyond that. Pish!
1997 M. Fabi Wyrm xvii. 477 Omnipotent? Pish, tush, I never claimed to be omnipotent. That's just pious flattery.
B. n.
1. An utterance of ‘pish’ †to make a pish at (also of): to treat with contempt; to make light of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > treat with contempt
unworthc950
to make scorn at, toc1320
to take in vainc1330
despise1377
rebuke?a1400
despite1481
indign1490
to make a mumming of1523
flock1545
scandalize1566
to make coarse account of1578
misregard1582
overpeer1583
to make a pish at (also of)1593
to make a push at1600
to bite by the nose1602
blurta1625
to piss ona1625
to make wash-way of, with1642
trample1646
huff1677
snouch1761
to walk over (the course)1779
to run over ——1816
snoot1928
shaft1959
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance
blurt1579
puff1579
pish1593
pooh1593
tush1600
hiss1602
mew1606
pshaw1712
pooh pooh1798
poof1864
razoo1888
raspberry1890
razz1917
razzberry1920
Bronx cheer1929
big deal1949
the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > [noun] > utterance of impatient remark
pish1593
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > utterance of an exclamation of disgust
pish1593
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica sig. A4 I desire you to peruse my periodicall punctuations, find fault with my pricks, nicks, and tricks, proue them not worth a pin, not a point, not a pish.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Eij All receipts and authors you can name he syllogizeth of, & makes a pish at.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxvii. xxxv. 965 Those matters..the Romanes made a pish at, and lightly regarded.
1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 28 He answered with a Pish only, and turning his back on me, said to a Captain, you see the Fruits of making mean People familiar.
1777 W. Cowper Let. 28 Oct. (1979) I. 274 I had rather never see the Books than extort from you one single Pish.
1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 98 She writhed with impatience..And utter'd ‘pshaws!’ and ‘pishes!’
1867 M. J. Holmes Cameron Pride xxv. 217 With a frown and pish of contempt he tossed it into the grate.
1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxx. 373 You were used to charm his melancholy and make a pish of his phantastical humorous forebodings.
1998 Independent (Nexis) 20 May c2 Lorna made a noise that was somewhere between a ‘pish’ and a ‘tut’.
2. Nonsense, rubbish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man 91 This is pish, nonsense, nothing!
1988 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 7 Dec. l4 Real Taylor pals say this tale is so much pish and tosh.
2003 Snoop Apr. 11/2 A psychologist claims that a group of lesbian monkeys shows that Darwin's theories of evolution are pish.

Compounds

pish-monger n. [after fishmonger n.] humorous Obsolete rare a person given to treating things with contempt.
ΚΠ
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία Pref. sig. a vjv Too severe Censurer (free of the Company of Pish~mongers) that Pisheth at any thing not exact.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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