ptui

ptui

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

ptui

1. The sound of spitting.
   • 1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new

     I wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui, ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.

   • 1991, Anne Siew Kim Lim, Face to face: the street children of Bukit Ho Swee

     She would go 'Ptui! Ptui! Ptui!' and seem to reinforce her curses (in a language as colourful as that of the boys') by stamping on her own spittle.

Translations

sound of spitting

Finnish: pthyi

Greek: φτου (el) (ftou)

Anagrams

• Tupi, tipu