Pshaw

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • interjection. Used to indicate impatience, irritation, disapproval, or disbelief.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. Indicating disapproval, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
  • v. To express disgust or contempt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • interjection. Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.
  • verb-intransitive. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation “ Pshaw!”
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An exclamation implying contempt, disdain, impatience, or a sense of absurdity.
  • To utter the interjection pshaw; evince contempt or impatience by such interjections as pshaw.
  • Word Usage
    "And to those who say that the Internet is killing newspapers, Peter says "pshaw" - a recent study has shown that not to be the case."
    Variant
    psha   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blurt    pish    tush    'twill    tut