PU
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"
Translingual
Symbol
PU
- (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands from 1974 to 1986.
- Synonym: PUS (alpha-3)
Usage notes
The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
English
Alternative forms
- P.U., P. U.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
PU (plural PUs)
- (computing) Initialism of processing unit.
- (linguistics) Initialism of prosodic unit. (IU for intonation unit is preferred)
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyurethane.
- Initialism of power unit.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of pickup. (as in, pickup artist)
Hyponyms
computing
- CPU
- GPU
- NPU
- PPU
- SPU
- TPU
- VPU
computing
- DSP
- FPGA
- SPE
Interjection
PU
- (slang) Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.
- 1994 February 28, zombie, “Future Images”, in rec.arts.comics.misc, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-20:
- IMO, this stinks. PU.
- 1997 February 19, K.A.J., “PU, whats that smell......”, in rec.equestrian, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-20:
- 1999 April 7, Thomas Mac Donald, “99 Interior Smell - PU”, in rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-20:
- 2000 March 19, thunde...@webtv.net, “PU WHO CUT THE FRIKIN CHEESE?”, in alt.cheese, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-20:
- THIS NEWSGROUP STINKS
PU
- 2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-20:
- Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.
- 2000 October 7, Samuel Sands, “Truck”, in atl.arno, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-20:
- PU? As in Stinks? :^)
Sam (Pee Euw) Sands
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See also
- (polyurethane): ePTFE
References
PU on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- U.P., UP, up, up-
Spanish
Proper noun
PU m
- Abbreviation of Puebla. (Mexican state)