PU
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"
Translingual
Symbol
PU
- (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands from 1974 to 1986.
Usage notes
The code was deprecated in favour of UM, the code for the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
English
Pronunciation
Audio (AU): (file)
Alternative forms
Noun
PU (plural PUs)
- (computing) Initialism of processing unit.
- (linguistics) Initialism of prosodic unit. (IU for intonation unit is preferred)
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyurethane.
- Initialism of power unit.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of pickup. (as in, pickup artist)
Hyponyms
computing
computing
Interjection
PU
- (slang) Alternative form of P U; expression used when encountering a displeasing smell; exaggerated pronunciation of pew.
- 2000 February 22, Karl Reinhardt, “How to spell???”, in alt.usage.english[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-20:
- Phew can mean you are exhausted, hot, and other things which leave you overwhelmed. Pew is a bench you sit on in church. PU means that something stinks. I feel no connection between these words. While Phew *may* mean "what a stink", PU can mean *only* "what a stink". By the way, PU has been around at least since was a young kid 60 years ago.
See also
- (polyurethane): ePTFE
References
Anagrams
Spanish
Proper noun
PU m
- Abbreviation of Puebla. (Mexican state)
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