phy

See also: Phy and PHY

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɪ/

Noun

phy (uncountable)

1. (slang) The drug physeptone.
   • 1996, Fortnight, numbers 346-356, page 23:

     "The phy is doing me in", she says […]

   • 2015, Julie O'Toole, Heroin: A story of drug addiction, hope and triumph:

     Phy is much harder to come off than heroin.

See also

• phy ed (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• HYP, hyp, hyp-, hyp.

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English physics.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fi¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fi¹
    • Yale: fī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fiː⁵⁵/

Noun

phy

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) physics

See also

• phy chem bio

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pʰyː/, [pʰyː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi/, [fiː]

Interjection

phȳ

1. pish!

References

• “phy”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phy”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phy in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.