puh
See also: puh.
English
Interjection
puh
- Alternative form of pugh
- 2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82:
- He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!
Synonyms
- (expressing contempt): feh, pht, pish, poh, pshaw; see also Thesaurus:bah
- (expressing disgust): bleah, eww, ick, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “puh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
An onomatopoeia: the sound of rapid exhalation.
Used to express emotion beyond compare to the point of which there are no words to describe the setting.
Pronunciation
Interjection
puh!
- pooh (expression of dismissal or contempt‚ used when encountering an unpleasant smell)
- phew (used to show relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust)
Synonyms
- (show disgust): ad, bvadr, føj, puha, puh ha
- (show fatigue): puha, puh ha
- (show relief): puha, puh ha, pyh
German
Interjection
puh!
- phew!
Further reading
- “puh” in Duden online
Mapudungun
Noun
puh (using Raguileo Alphabet)
Portuguese
Interjection
- yuck (expression of disgust)
Synonyms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
pȕh m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏х)
Declension
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