psych
interj.— «psych (pronounced sy-y-y-k) an exclamation, means telling a lie. “Robert said Michael Jordan was his dad and then I yelled, ‘Psych! Psych!’”» —“L.A. Speak” by Kathleen Moloney, Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Astronauts returning from space say they experience what’s called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our need to reflect on what humans all share as a species. A book about the end of the universe...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...