| Pshaw in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| pshaw | (1673) | Wycherley Gentl. Dancing Master iii, |
| ``Mons. Pshaw! wat do you tell me of the matche! '' |
| high-flyer | (1694) | Crowne Married Beau ii. Dram. Wks. 1874 IV. 278 |
| `Oh! pshaw, our hearts are seldom such high flyers. '' |
| vixen | (1700) | Congreve Way of World iv. 54 |
| ``Pshaw, what a Vixon trick is this? '' |
| stow | (1710) | C. Shadwell Fair Quaker Deal i. i. 15 |
| `[A sailor speaks.] Pshaw, who would not stand all this, to have their upper and lower Teer well Stow'd with Flip? '' |
| pshaw | (1712) | Steele Spect. No. 438 &page.3 |
| `Pishes and Pshaws, or other well-bred Interjections. '' |
| gum | (1751) | Smollett Per. Pic. xvi. I. 115 |
| ``Pshaw! brother, there's no occasion to bowss out so much unnecessary gum. '' |
| bouse | (1751) | Smollett Per. Pic xiv. (D.) |
| `Pshaw! brother, there's no occasion to bowss out so much unnecessary gum [i.e. palaver].'' |
| pshaw | (1759) | Sterne Tr. Shandy I. xvii, |
| ``My father travelled homewards..in none of the best of moods-pshawing and pishing all the way down. '' |
| hop | (1760) | Sterne Tr. Shandy (ed. 3) I. xii. 48 |
| ``Yorick..would as often answer with a pshaw!-and if the subject was started in the fields-with a hop, skip, and a jump, at
the end of it. '' |
| pshaw | (1768) | Baretti Mann. &. Cust. Italy I. 277 |
| ``To answer me with an angry pshaw.'' |
| stuff | (1770) | Foote Lame Lover i. 10 |
| ``Pshaw! nonsense and stuff.-The eye! '' |
| half | (1777) | Sheridan Sch. Scand. iv. iii |
| ``Pshaw! he is too moral by half. '' |
| conundrum | (1790) | Wolcott (P.
Pindar) Elegy to Apollo Wks. (1812) II. 278 |
| `The Riddle and Conundrum-mongers cry Pshaw!
'' |
| pshaw | (1798) | Frere, etc. in Anti-Jacobin No. 31 (1852) 174 |
| ``'Pshaw! what, ever blundering!-you drive me from my patience.'' |
| pooh | (1798) | Charlotte Smith Yng. Philos. I. 44 |
| ``The Doctor..pshaw'd and pooh'd for some time. '' |
| pooh pooh | (1798) | Charlotte Smith Yng. Philos. I. 6 |
| ``Before the Doctor had vented his pshaws and pooh poohs. '' |
| tush | (1819) | Scott Ivanhoe
xl[i]v, |
| ``Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message. '' |
| fie | (1820) | Scott Monast. I. ii. 105 |
| ``The child reddened..while the mother, with many a fye and nay pshaw [etc.].'' |
| sarsenet | (1820) | Scott Monast. ii, |
| ``With many a fye and nay pshaw, and such sarsenet chidings as tender mothers give to spoiled children.'' |
| mister | (1830) | Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. (1863) 338 |
| ``Mr. Warde-pshaw! he is too eminent a man to be mistered! John Warde, the celebrated fox-hunter. '' |
| smell | (1830) | G. Cruikshank Gentl. in Black i. (1831) 5 |
| ```Confound this head-ache.'..`Pshaw! pshaw! smell this bottle,' said the stranger. '' |
| pish | (1840) | Hood Kilmansegg, Her precious Leg x, |
| ``She writh'd with impatience..And utter'd `pshaws!' and `pishes!''' |
| pshaw | (1840) | Hood Kilmansegg, Her precious Leg x, |
| ``She writh'd with impatience more than pain, And uttered `pshaws!'and `pishes!' '' |
| nature | (1841) | Thackeray Second Funeral of Napoleon iii. 67 |
| ``In the matter of gentleman democrats, cry pshaw! Give us one of nature's gentlemen, and hang your aristocrats!
'' |
| pshaw | (1845) | Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 179/1 |
| ``Pish and pshaw..express different shades of contempt, the latter showing more of ill humour and vexation than the
former.''" |
| bad | (1846) | J. J. Hooper Adv. Simon Suggs vii. 94 |
| ```Pshaw!' said Suggs, `you aint bad hurt.' '' |
| mewing | (1849) | James Woodman xviii | ` |
| Pshaw, I am sick of their mewing. '' |
| shoo | (1856) | P. Thompson Hist. Boston 722 |
| ``Shoo or Shah. Pshaw! a peevish reply. '' |
| pshaw | (1862) | Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. iii. xiv, |
| ```Pshaw!' was the peevish ejaculation of Mr. Dare. '' |
| pish | (1864) | Hawthorne S. Felton (1883) 333 |
| ``The learned man..pished and pshawed.'' |
| O | (1874) | Walch Head over Heels 42 |
| ```Pshaw', cried Sandy (Clan MacTavish) In his beautiful O.P. Scotch. '' |
| pshaw | (1891) | Longm. Mag. Sept. 45 |
| ``Don't `Pshaw!' at me.'' |
| hum | (1893) | J. S. Winter Aunt Johnnie II. 93 |
| ``He hum'd at the cutlets and he pshaw'd at the salad.'' |
| pshaw | (1901) | Blackw. Mag. Feb. 247/1 |
| ``He pshawed his melancholy vapours.'' |
| shoot | (1934) | Webster 2319/2 |
| `Shoot.., interj. Pshaw! Bother!-often with it. '' |