ptui
/p(ə)ˈtuːi/(also ptooey)
exclamation
Representing the sound of a person spitting; (hence) expressing disgust or contempt: ‘Pah!’ ‘Pshaw!’.
Origin
1930s. Imitative. Compare pfui, phooey, and also ptish, pshaw, etc.
- despair
- despairing
- despairingly
- despatch
- despatcher
- despedida
- desperado
- desperadoism
- desperate
- desperate diseases must have desperate remedies
- desperately
- desperateness
- desperation
- despicable
- despicably
- de Spinoza, Baruch
- despise
- despiser
- despite
- despiteful
- despite oneself
- despite (or in despite) of
- Des Plaines
- despoil
- despoiler