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pfft|ft, pft|
Also p'fft, phfft, phtt, etc.
[Echoic.]
= phut int. (adv., n.)
1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. 5 One..rifle-bullet landed with a phtt in the chalk between two officers. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 313/2 Then it all goes pfft. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §360/2 Divorce,..go pfft,—pffft or phut,..pfft, phffft, phut. 1954Wodehouse Jeeves & Feudal Spirit iii. 29 It wouldn't take much to make the Stilton–Florence axis go p'fft again. 1972F. Warner Lying Figures i. 6 Commuters' corset till sixty-five, then pppfft! the six by four. 1975Washington Post 10 Mar. b1 A voice..said ‘Thank you, Barbra’ and, phffft! The hour was over. 1977Ibid. 13 Jan. c1/3 Senatorial marriages of 5, 23 and 35 years were going pffffffft, as the Hollywood columnists used to write. 1977Rolling Stone 16 June 11/2 Nothin' serious; $500 in bail, phffffftttt.
Hence pfft v. intr. (U.S. journalists' slang), to come to an abrupt end, to collapse; of a couple, to become estranged, to separate, to divorce; also transf. and as ppl. adj.
1930Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 48/3 Mr. Walter Winchell..exercises a tremendous power for mischief with impassive diablerie: ‘the so-and-sos have phfft!’ 1938W. Winchell in Baltimore News-Post 16 Mar. 16/2 Have Lionel Stander and the films phfft? 1938― in Ibid. 21 Mar. 10/1 Burton Rascoe and Dorothy Parker have phffft! 1939Time 28 Aug. 13 Gossip columnists took this as renewed notice that the Franklin D. Jrs. are not phphpht as gossiped. 1940New Yorker 13 July 22/3 International Politics, March 29, 1937. ‘Adolf and Benito have phffft! The break will be announced soon enough.’ 1946J. T. Shipley in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. English 136 To indicate the collapse of a project..the columnist declares that it has pfft. 1957Chicago Amer. 9 Feb. 17/8 Alan and Joanne Rio, who were dating, have pffft. |