Shaw vs Pshaw - What's the difference?

shaw | pshaw |

As a noun shaw

is a thicket; a small wood or grove.

As a proper noun Shaw

is an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood or copse.

As an interjection pshaw is

indicating disapproval, irritation, impatience or disbelief.

As a verb pshaw is

to express disgust or contempt.

shaw

English

Alternative forms

* shawe

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A thicket; a small wood or grove.

*:Thenne said sire kay I requyre you lete vs preue this aduenture / I shal not fayle you said sir Gaherys / and soo they rode that tyme tyl a lake / that was that tyme called the peryllous lake / And there they abode vnder the shawe of the wood

*1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems , V, lines 1-2

The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws , / And grasses in the mead renew their birth,

(label) The leaves and tops of vegetables, especially potatoes and turnips.

*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon, 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p.35:

*:Up here the hills were brave with the beauty and the heat of it, but the hayfield was still all a crackling dryness and in the potato park beyond the biggings the shaws drooped red and rusty already.

Anagrams

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pshaw

English

Interjection

(en interjection)

Indicating disapproval, irritation, impatience or disbelief.

Pshaw! I can't believe it!

* 1823 — , ch. 13

"Pshaw ! Why do ye bother yourself wid texts, man, about so small a matter?" interrupted the landlady

* 1838-1839 — , ch. 56

'Pshaw !' Ralph muttered, forcing a laugh.

* 1891 — , ch. xxiii

"Have a care, cousin," he whispered; "for the sake of the Virgin have a care, for you have angered him."

"Pshaw ! fear not," the other answered in the same low tone.

* 1992 - Wayne Campbell,

"Pshaw ! And monkeys might fly out of my butt."

Verb

(en verb)

To express disgust or contempt.