I have yoga-loving vegan free-spirit-type friend who occasionally puts “shew” in her emails. I haven’t been able to get an answer from google that seems to match.
In what context does she use “shew”?
“Shew” is an archaic form of “show.” shew - Wiktionary
I’m guessing it was regarding things that were really big.
Where are you/she from? Around here (Mass./Rhode Island) some people say “whew” more like “shew.” So when they mean “Whew, that was a tough workout,” it sounds like “shew.”
Maybe?
In case the OP misses the reference: Ed Sullivan.
Shuh!
Don’t you mean “SHOO-wah”? (Thinking of Ellen Greene’s turn in Little Shop of Horrors. We laugh like hell every time she hits that word.)
Tom Sawyer’s wife says “Shoh! It’s that horrible murder!” at one point. Same interjection differently spelled I guess.
It’s a Southern affectation: “Shoo, it’s hot!” “Shoooo, it’s been a long day”. Equivalent to “Whoo!”
“Shew” is a cutesy spelling used in text and emails.
Also spelled “pshew”, though not often.
Is there some etiquette thing that prevents you from just asking her what it means?
That’s the sound a gun makes.
It’s more fun this way.
This is it. I had thought it was some kind of well-wishing term borrowed from another language. but looking back I see this fits.
Thanks, all!
This is also heard as “shoo weee”, at least in Georgia.
The local buses when I was a kid had notices telling you that “tickets must be shewn when requested”.