Word of the Day: PISH


ETYMOLOGY
an imitative or expressive formation


EXAMPLE
“…Hoe! God, be here! on their bald, burnt, parchment pates. Pish, pish! what talke you of olde age or balde pates? Men and women that haue gone vnder the south pole, must lay of theyr furre night-caps in spyght of their teeth, and become yeomen of the vineger bottle…”

From: Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Diuell
By Thomas Nashe, 1592

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