pfft
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Pronunciation
Interjection
pfft
- Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.
- 1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways
- You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.
- 1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways
- Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.
- 2018, Tommy Orange, “Orvil Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 125:
- “ […] You remember that lump I got? I felt something poking out of it. So I pulled, like, I just pulled one out, put it on some folded-up toilet paper, then went back in and got another one. Then one more after that. I’m pretty sure they’re spider legs,” Orvil says. ¶ “Pfffffft,” Loother says and laughs. At which point Orvil shows him a neat pile of folds of toilet paper.
- (onomatopoeia) Used to signify a puffing sound.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound of a short fart.
Noun
pfft (plural pffts)
- A short puffing sound.
- 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 28:
- "Are we talking a delicate little Scandinavian pfft, or the whole raspberry tart?"
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