# pish
## English
### Etymology

Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪʃ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʃ

### Interjection

pish
* Expressing disdain.

#### Synonyms

* pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah

#### Derived terms

* pish posh
* pish tosh

### Noun

pish (plural pishes)
* A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
* Synonym of pish posh (“nonsense, poppycock”)

### Verb

pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishing, simple past and past participle pished)
* To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
* To express contempt.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 73, column 1:Piſh for thee, Iſland dogge: thou prickeard cur of Iſland.

#### Usage notes

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

### Adjective

pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish)
* (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.

#### References

* “pish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* 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

### See also

* pish pash (etymlogically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* -ship, HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, ship

## Chinese
### Etymology

Deliberate misspelling of push, from English push.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰiʃ⁵⁵/

### Verb

pish
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) to bump a thread in support

#### Synonyms

* 推 (teoi$^1$), push

#### Antonyms

* pull, 拉

#### See also

* English: age

## Chinook Jargon
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fish, or possibly French pêche.

#### Noun

pish
* fish

### Etymology 2

From Chinook opitshka.

#### Noun

pish
* fire

##### Synonyms

* piah

## Mohegan-Pequot
### Alternative forms

* beesh (obsolete orthography)

### Etymology

From English peas.

### Noun

pish
* peas

### References

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

## Scots
### Etymology

From late Middle English pyshe, variant of pisse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪʃ/
* Rhymes: -ɪʃ

### Noun

pish (uncountable)
* (vulgar) Urine, piss.
* (vulgar) Crust on a scabbing wound.

### Verb

pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishin, simple past pished, past participle pished)
* To urinate, to piss.

#### Derived terms

* reekin o pish

### Adjective

pish (comparative mair pish, superlative maist pish)
* (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quite bad.

### Interjection

pish
* An expression of disdain.

#### References

* “pish”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Western Apache
### Etymology

From English fish.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pʰɪ̀ʃ]

### Noun

pish
* fish