Crossword clues for pshaw
pshaw
- "Yeah, sure!"
- Old-time oath
- Quaint oath
- Exclamation of disgust
- Cry of contempt
- Word of disgust
- Darn it!
- Quaint complaint
- "Oh, puh-leeze!"
- Expression of contempt
- "Oh, gimme a break!"
- Dickensian expletive
- Word of impatience
- Old-style oath
- Expression of disbelief
- "You expect me to believe that?"
- ''Don't give me that!''
- "Don't give me that rot!"
- Word of disbelief
- Contemptuous outburst
- "What a bunch of malarkey!"
- "I don't believe that!"
- ''As if!''
- Old-school "Yeah, right!"
- Dismissive word
- Disbeliever's outburst
- "Pfft, yeah right!"
- 'No way!'
- Skeptic's shout
- Quaint word of dismissal
- Quaint exclamation of disbelief
- Old-fashioned "as if!"
- Irritated interjection
- Impatient interjection
- Dismissive comment
- Dismissal announcement?
- Dated exclamation
- "That's poppycock!"
- "Silas Marner" exclamation
- "Poppycock, I say!"
- "Oh, hogwash!"
- "Oh, come now!"
- "Oh, ___!" (old-fashioned interjection)
- "Horse hockey!"
- "Harrumph" kin
- "C'mon, nobody believes that"
- "Bull!," once
- ''I don't believe that!''
- "Fiddlesticks!"
- "I don't believe it!"
- Skeptical comment
- "Don't give me that!" old-style
- "Pooh!"
- Cousin of "harrumph"
- "No way!"
- "Oh, stop your joshin'!"
- "I don't buy it!"
- "Get outta here!"
- "You're joshing!"
- "I don't buy it"
- "Oh, come on!"
- "Hogwash!"
- "Nonsense!"
- "Ridiculous!"
- "Stop yer joshin'!"
- "Shucks!"
- "Aw, quit your joshin'!"
- 17-Across, quaintly
- "It is to laugh!"
- "Applesauce!"
- "Oh, get off it!"
- "Horsefeathers!"
- "Oh, baloney!"
- "Nuts!"
- "Fie!"
- Quaint "Oh, don't be silly!"
- "What a load of hogwash!"
- "Fiddle-faddle!"
- Sarcastic "Oh, sure"
- "Oh, go on!"
- "That's nothing"
- "Yeah, right!"
- Doggone it!
- Cry of disbelief
- Expression of impatience
- Balderdash!
- Appropriate cry for G.B.S.
- Poppycock!
- Cry of disgust
- Impatient cry
- Word of contempt
- Mum interrupts Dad with expression of contempt
- Playwright beginning with page that expresses contempt
- Mild expletive
- "Dream on!"
- "As if!" ancestor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pshaw \Pshaw\, interj. [Of imitative origin.] Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc. [Written also psha.]
Pshaw \Pshaw\, v. i. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation `` Pshaw!''
The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever
this topic was touched upon.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exclamation of contempt or rejection, by 1670s.
Wiktionary
interj. Indicating disapproval, irritation, impatience or disbelief. vb. (context intransitive English) To express disgust or contempt.
Usage examples of "pshaw".
To my surprise, however, Saxon pished and pshawed under his breath, until at last, unable to contain his impatience, he broke out in hot discontent.
Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!