Definition of Pshawing

1. Verb. (present participle of pshaw) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pshawing

1. pshaw [v] - See also: pshaw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pshawing

pseudoverbal
pseudovirgins
pseudovirion
pseudovirions
pseudovirus
pseudoviruses
pseudovum
pseudowire
pseudowires
pseuds
pseudy
pseudæsthesia
pshaw
pshawed
pshawing (current term)
pshaws
psi
psi function
psi functions
psi particle
psicose
psicoses
psilanthropic
psilanthropism
psilanthropist
psilanthropists
psilanthropy
psilocin
psilocins

Literary usage of Pshawing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"THOUGH my father travelled homewards, as I told you, in none of the best moods, pshawing and pishing all the way down, yet he had the complaisance to keep ..."

2. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"CHAPTER XVII THOUGH my father travelled homewards, as I told you, in none of the best of moods,—pshawing and pish-ing all the way down,—yet he had the ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... Mr. Brown pulled his bell violently, and had the fire made up, and asked for his tea. His tea ! he never touched it when it came, but sat pshawing and ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... the latter asserting her fears that her sister's dignified reserve had wounded the over-susceptible nature of the colonel ; the former, pshawing away ..."

5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... then he read Ethel's over again, and put it in his breast-pocket, and was very disturbed in mind that day, pishing and pshawing at the statue gallery ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"... and others more or less known to Fame—that is, to Mr Mudie ; and the Chief was cutting up Andrew Lang's last—pishing and pshawing as was his wont. ..."

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