pshaw
/pʃɔː
/ /ʃɔː /dated or humorous
exclamation
An expression of contempt or impatience: ‘Poison? Pshaw! The very idea!’...
- And for those of you who don't really want details of this, pshaw!
- EEEEWWWW pshaw what the bloody hell?
verb [no object]
Say ‘pshaw’: when I suggested that free trade might dilute Canadian culture, he pshawed...
- ‘Oh, I was a stickler for the rules,’ she pshawed, ‘I work in a bar now.’
- Upon hearing Kurtz's notes over the phone, one imagines the rewrite guy pshawing the angle.
- He pshawed me, accused me of being in denial of incipient middle-age and merely affecting to like ‘the crew’ whilst pining for Celine Dion or Dido.
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the late 17th century.