psst
/p(ə)st
/exclamation
Used to attract someone’s attention surreptitiously: Psst! Want to know a secret?...
- Well, Dave puts on a baseball cap and hides in the cellar and goes, psst!
- ‘Hey, psst,’ he asks in a stage whisper, ‘whoever's in charge here, the scenery, where's the scenery?’
- Psst come closer; I've got a secret.
Origin
1920s: imitative.
- Germanophily
- Germanophobe
- Germanophobia
- germanous
- German paste
- German process
- German reunification
- German sarsaparilla
- German sausage
- German Sea
- German sheepdog
- German sheet
- German sheet glass
- German shepherd
- German silver
- German sixth
- German sock
- German South West Africa
- German steel
- German stitch
- German tamarisk
- German text
- German tinder
- Germantown
- German vitriol