单词 | pish |
释义 | pishv. 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. 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. 264 ‘Pish!’ 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. CompoundsΚΠ 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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