psssh.

interj.  a whooshing sound to accompany a hand gesture meaning that someone missed a point.

<“Psssh”—he sliced his palm through the air—“[the meaning went] over their heads.”  —Ron Powers, Tom and Huck Don’t Live Here Anymore.>

interj.  an emphatic expression.

<Born-again.  Huh!  You ain’t convincin’ me that because you was born-again yesterday that you weren’t freakin’ the day before.  Psssh... every girl got some freak in her, so don’t even try to deny it.  —Relentless Aaron, Triple Threat.>

interj.  an expression of contempt.

<“Psssh.”  He wrinkled his mouth and nose at my stupidity, causing his small gray mustache to twitch between them.  —John Morgan Wilson, Moth and Flame: A Benjamin Justice Novel.> <“Psssh,” Delp waves his hand contemptuously.  “Need I remind you that the human animal is infinitely various, and that what will dispatch one quite neatly may not necessarily, inexorably and in all cases do the trick for another.  —T.C. Boyle, Water Music.> <Psssh.  Beverly was an evil one.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.  —Rochelle Alers, Island Magic.>

interj.  an expression of frustration.

<I’m then stuck again till 3:45 pm for the next bus back to High Wycombe.  Psssh!  —Marc Fleisher, Making Sense of the Unfeasible: My Life Journey with Asperger Syndrome.>

n.  a “gushing auditory noise” to accompany a character’s offstage performance in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, as discussed in Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot.

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