▪ I. pah, int. (a.)
(pəh, pɑː)
Also 7 pagh.
A natural exclamation of disgust.
| 1592 Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. xiv, Pah: keepe your way. 1604 Shakes. Ham. v. i. 221 (Qo.) Doost thou thinke Alexander lookt a this fashion i'th earth?.. And smelt so, pah. 1605 ― Lear iv. vi. 132 Fye, fie, fie; pah, pah: Giue me an Ounce of Ciuet; good Apothecary sweeten my immagination. 1676 Doctrine of Devils 55 Pagh, this is but a poor trick. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xii, Pah! I scorn a tale-bearer. 1880 Mrs. Forrester Roy & V. I. 38 It was a horrid..thought, it made one's flesh creep. Pah! |
b. attrib. or as adj. (in childish lang.) Nasty; hence, Improper, unbecoming.
| a 1654 Selden Table-t. (Arb.) 118 Like a Child that will continually be shewing its fine new Coat, till at length it all bedawbs it with its Pah-hands. 1835 Court Mag. VI. 239/1 But to pass o'er the rail was considered pah, pah. |
▪ II. pah
var. of pa2.