| 释义 |
phut-phut, n. and v.
[Reduplication of prec.]
= put-put n., v.
1951M. R. Anand Seven Summers 78 The sahibs who came on bicycles or ‘phut-phuties’. 1952R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia 144 Phut-phut goes the exhaust. 1956‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 39 He listened to the phut-phutting of the old engine. 1958J. Carew Black Midas vi. 103 The motor sputtered, then settled down to a steady phut-phutting. 1958Spectator 10 Oct. 479/2 People on the outskirts would receive less noise from a vtol airliner than from a clip-on phut-phut passing along the road outside their houses. a1966M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) xi. 129, I dropped over on my phut-phut about half past eight. 1971Guardian 14 May 11/1 Phutt-putting around London on her three-wheeled scooter. 1977P. Harcourt At High Risk i. 93 The schoolkids were streaming out of the lycée and tearing up the street on their phut-phutting quarante-neufs. |