My husband actually uses the word "pshaw" on occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Alas, poor Snarklings] Reference
"You kin 'pshaw' till the cows come home," cried the other heatedly. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
"It wasn't so very long ago that women Said 'pshaw' when they wanted to let off steam. From Wordnik.com. [Quill's Window] Reference
I mean, pshaw, we are burger lovers from WAY BACK. From Wordnik.com. [Black Shack Gets the AHT Once Over | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
"Oh, pshaw! one heat of fun -- they'll shut him out!". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
I don't tend to pshaw it as fleeting and unimportant. From Wordnik.com. [blog: Two Days in LA] Reference
I think the word you want is pshaw, Mr. Spellchecker. From Wordnik.com. [Obi-wan, you're my only hope] Reference
"But, pshaw! that was not what we were talking about.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Indifferent, but indifferent — pshaw, he doth it not. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
In these cases a pinch of snuff often -- often -- pshaw!. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Then gave an impatient pshaw! and turned again to Ellen. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young] Reference
And then for Liv to trick him the way she did – pshaw. From Wordnik.com. [Zebras : Bev Vincent] Reference
"Oh, pshaw! what's a little snow?" scoffed Belle Tingley. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
COOPER: Jeffrey Toobin, you say pshaw to the whole thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2004] Reference
“Jealous, my dear! and jealous of THAT fellow — pshaw!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Bedford-Row Conspiracy] Reference
But he would only laugh, and pshaw, and walk off to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
"O pshaw!" cried his brother, hammering a nail rather viciously. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
pshaw, pshaw! this is all but the whining end of a modern novel. From Wordnik.com. [She Stoops to Conquer] Reference
Uranium and coal, pshaw -- it's all about data mining these days. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Amster: A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People] Reference
Aunt Winifred, by law, takes a countess's title; and I-- pshaw!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
But pshaw! as for that every mother is ambitious for her daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl] Reference
Twitter photos love-notes e-mail design hosted madnessinvain? pshaw. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
And as to her clothes, pshaw, Four Fingers will be happy to replace them!. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
The Bear Sterns bailout -- pshaw, that's only three months in Iraq war dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Patt Morrison: Finally, Something to Thank George Bush For] Reference
One sailor cried out: 'Oh, pshaw! it's all up with us now; that's a searchlight.'. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
“Oh, pshaw,” said Sophia, standing now and twirling the parasol more quickly. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
And if ever I find out I have -- pshaw, I am talking like a sentimental schoolgirl. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Whereupon he laughed and replied, 'Oh, pshaw! you never believed in them, did you?'. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
"Oh, pshaw! it's only a shower coming up," said the butterfly, stretching her wings. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
When it came to ditching the joint-harming stomping, Pakistan essentially said pshaw. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of a slow thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations] Reference
My life — pshaw — let Emily thank you for that; this is a favour worth fifty lives. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
That you must write a million words before you produce something worth publishing ... pshaw!. From Wordnik.com. [Publishing Myths Contest!] Reference
Way to usher in the autumnal foods as if LA had seasons, pshaw!... great pictures as always!. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Girls' Playdate] Reference
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