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PSHAW
Definition of PSHAW
interjection
Indicating contempt, disgust, irritation, impatience, or disbelief.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PSHAW carries 4 further meanings.
interjection
Used to indicate impatience, irritation, disapproval, or disbelief.
An exclamation implying contempt, disdain, impatience, or a sense of absurdity.
To utter the interjection pshaw; evince contempt or impatience by such interjections as pshaw.
intransitive verb
To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation “ Pshaw!”
Where it comes from
A natural expressive noise of rejection. First attested in the late 17th century.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PSHAW · 3 relatives in the game
PSHAW in a sentence
“And to those who say that the Internet is killing newspapers, Peter says "pshaw" - a recent study has shown that not to be the case.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PSHAW in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 77 boards so far. 350 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PSHAW starts with P and ends with W. Sorted, its letters read AHPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PSHAW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found PSHAW?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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