Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PISH
PISH
Definitions of PISH
- A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
- To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
- To express contempt.
- Expressing disdain.
- (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly, Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PISH in a Sentence
- The cuisine introduced dishes such as curry, chutney, kedgeree, mulligatawny and pish pash to English palates.
- ;Pish (US): an emphatic shushing or hissing noise used by North American birders to elicit mobbing behavior; made in imitation of alarm calls of chickadees and titmice.
- He has written over forty books, including The Key to The Da Vinci Code (Crombie Jardine, 2005), Tish and Pish: How to be of a Speakingness like Stephen Fry (Summersdale, 2005) and How to be a Writer (Summersdale, 2013).
- A pish is an imitated bird call (usually a scold or alarm call) used by birders and ornithologists to attract birds (generally passerines).
- Since 1938 several scientific excavations have been conducted by American, Danish, British, Belgian, and Iranian archaeologists on the cemeteries in areas including the northern Pish Kuh valleys and the southern Pusht Kuh of Lorestān; these are terms for the eastern "front" and western "back" slopes of the Kabīrkūh range of mountains, part of the larger Zagros Mountains, which define the region where the bronzes seem to have been found.
- They began their recording career on the Moksha Recordings label run by arch psychopath Charlie Cosh with the Bros are Pish EP, poking fun at then chart-toppers Bros, among others.
- The next season, Skitch added the role of Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore, the role for which he is perhaps best remembered (his Grosvenor – his favourite role – and his Pish Tush were also particularly admired), and also briefly appeared as Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance.
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