pish
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɪʃ/
- Expressing disdain.
pish (plural pishes)
- A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
pish (pishes, present participle pishing; past and past participle pished)
- To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
- To express contempt.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene 1], page 73 ↗, column 1:
- Piſh for thee, Iſland dogge: thou prickeard cur of Iſland.
pish
- (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly, Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.
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