pfui

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pfui

1. an exclamation indicating disagreement or rejection of an argument; contempt
   • 1981, Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, →ISBN:

     'Pfui!' The captain spat. 'I've never met such a dumb sailor as you. So where do you think the old moon goes?'

   • 1993, Samuel Beckett, ‎Eoin O'Brien, & ‎Edith Fournier, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, →ISBN, page 14:

     She liked Arschlochweh and adored Improvisation; but the Anatomiestunde and the bending and stretching she did not like. "Pfui!" she was disgusted, lifting her shoulders and spreading her hands like the Mandarin, "pfui! the old body!'

   • 2008, Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories, →ISBN, page 175:

     He comes barging in here as if the place belonged to him. And intoxicated . . . pfui! . . . the disgusting pig!

Signature declamation of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective character.

• pfuj
• pfuy (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /pfʊɪ̯/, /fʊɪ̯/

pfui

1. an exclamation of disgust, aversion, dislike, contempt, or annoyance

• pfui in Duden online
• “pfui” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Pfuj! and Y in Johann Christoph Adelung's Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart at www.zeno.org