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Definition of Pshawing
1. pshaw [v] - See also: pshaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pshawing
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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