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pish

/psh; spelling pronunciation pish/US // pʃ; spelling pronunciation pɪʃ //UK // (pʃ, pɪʃ) //

呸呸呸,呸

Definitions

interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    n.名词 noun
    1. 1
      • : an exclamation of “pish!”
    v.无主动词 verb
    1. 1
      • : to say “pish.”
    v.有主动词 verb
    1. 1
      • : to say “pish” at or to.

    Examples

    • Pish: no more, Thy gall sures ouer throwne; these are my Councell,And we were now in serious discourse.

    • Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.

    • Apician, a-pish′yan, adj. relating to Apicius, the Roman epicurean in the time of Tiberius: luxurious and expensive in diet.

    • Oftentimes we laughed at our own blunders, as when I told Mary, one day, that pish was the Dakota for fish.

    • All the light I am able to give the reader at present is this, that the moment my father cried Pish!

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