pish

• IPA^(key): /pɪʃ/

pish

1. Expressing disdain.

• pht, phht, pshh, pssht, psht, pshht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, bah, poh

pish (plural pishes)

1. A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.

pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishing, simple past and past participle pished)

1. To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
2. To express contempt.

   1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene 1], page 73, column 1:

   Piſh for thee, Iſland dogge: thou prickeard cur of Iſland.

pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish)

1. (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.

• Most commonly found in the gerund or present participle pishing.

• pish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Dunne, Peter (2006). The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls. →ISBN.
• Langham, G. M.; Contreras, T.A. & Sieving, K.E. (2006). Why pishing works: Titmouse (Paridae) scolds elicit a generalized response in bird communities. Ecoscience 13 (4): 485–496. doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[485:WPWTPS]2.0.CO;2

• -ship, HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, ship

Borrowed from English fish, or possibly French pêche.

pish

1. fish

From Chinook opitshka.

pish

1. fire

• piah

• beesh (obsolete orthography)

From English peas.

pish

1. peas

• A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)

From late Middle English pyshe, variant of pisse.

• enPR: pĭsh, IPA^(key): /pɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

pish (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) Urine, piss.
2. (vulgar) Crust on a scabbing wound.

pish (third-person singular present pishes, present participle pishin, past pished, past participle pished)

1. To urinate, to piss.

• reekin o pish

pish (comparative mair pish, superlative maist pish)

1. (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quite bad.

pish

1. An expression of disdain.

• “pish” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

From English fish.

• IPA^(key): [pʰɪ̀ʃ]

pish

1. fish