ptui
English
Etymology
Imitative.
Interjection
ptui
- The sound of spitting.
- 1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new
- I wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui, ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.
- 1991, Anne Siew Kim Lim, Face to face: the street children of Bukit Ho Swee:
- She would go 'Ptui! Ptui! Ptui!' and seem to reinforce her curses (in a language as colourful as that of the boys') by stamping on her own spittle.
- 1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new
Translations
sound of spitting
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