Notifications
Clear all
April 24, 2011 6:36 am
My grandmother often used this expression (Pshaw) ... to denote a feeling similar to what one might express in saying "oh phooey". Do you know ... if this is a "word" with a particular "word"derivation or is it more a sort of phonetic spelling of an expletive sound....
1 Reply
April 24, 2011 1:06 pm
The OED says the latter ("Imitative. Compare shoo int.1, shoo int.2, pah int., pish int., etc").
Emmett