Expressive; perhaps partly from Scotspish(“piss”).
pish
- Expressingdisdain.
pish (pluralpishes)
- Asibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
- Synonym ofpish posh(“nonsense, poppycock”).
pish (third-person singular simple presentpishes,present participlepishing,simple past and past participlepished)
- To try to attract birds by making asibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
- Toexpresscontempt.
1599 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i],page73, column 1:Piſh for thee, Iſland dogge: thou prickeard cur of Iſland.
- Most commonly found in the gerund or present participlepishing.
pish (comparativemorepish,superlativemostpish)
- (vulgar,colloquial, chieflyScotland) Of poor quality; very bad.
Deliberate misspelling ofpush, fromEnglishpush.
pish
- (Hong Kong Cantonese,Internetslang,leetspeak) tobump athread in support
Borrowed fromEnglishfish, or possiblyFrenchpêche.
pish
- fish
FromChinookopitshka.
pish
- fire
- beesh(obsolete orthography)
FromEnglishpeas.
pish
- peas
- A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)
From lateMiddle Englishpyshe, variant ofpisse.
pish (uncountable)
- (vulgar)Urine,piss.
- (vulgar)Crust on ascabbingwound.
pish (third-person singular simple presentpishes,present participlepishin,simple pastpished,past participlepished)
- Tourinate, topiss.
pish (comparativemair pish,superlativemaist pish)
- (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quitebad.
pish
- An expression ofdisdain.
FromEnglishfish.
pish
- fish
