preesh
v.— «Preesh—I appreciate that: X: “I brought you some coffee.” Y: “Preesh.”» —by Connie Eble et al. in University of North Carolina”“Chapel Hill UNC-CH Campus Slang Fall, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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