phew!exclamation
uk/fjuː/us/fjuː/informal mainly humorousused when you are happy that something difficult or dangerous has finished or is not going to happen, or when you are tired or hot:
Phew! I'm so glad I don't have to give that speech.
Phew, it's boiling in here!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: sounds used as interjections
- achoo
- bam
- blah
- cor
- duh
- er
- hah
- humph
- oops
- ow
- phooey
- shush
- tsk
- tut
- uh
- uh-oh
- uh-uh
- whoops
- yada yada yada
- zzz
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